Constituency
144. Madurai East
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-MADURAI-EAST
CPM 49.3%won by 8.0%INC 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.7% to 8.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.7% of the vote between them, up from 64.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
74,701
Margin
5,939
7.95%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1SANKARIAH, N.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM36,86249.3%
- 2RAMAMOORTHY, M. A.Indian National Congress · INC30,92341.4%
- 3RAMAMOORTHY, N. S.Janata Party · JNP5,6477.6%
- 4LAKSHMANAN, O. K. (OBULA)Independent · IND3820.5%
- 5JANAKT) KRISHNAN, J. S.Independent · IND3430.5%
- 6RAJARAM, S. N.Independent · IND2380.3%
- 7MUTHURAM, L. K. T.Independent · IND1530.2%
- 8B. SRIDHARAN (THORALI)Independent · IND960.1%
- 9ABDULLAH, M.Independent · IND570.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +5.2%
- CPM share
- 33.4% → 49.3%
- INC share
- 30.7% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- — → —