Constituency

148. Dindigul

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980

TN-DINDIGUL

IND 54.9%won by 11.5%INC 43.4%

What changed here

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The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 11.5%.

IND vote shareIND went from 3.2% to 54.9% of the vote here (+51.7%).
New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 43.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.3% of the vote between them, up from 63.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

1,00,547

Margin

11,519

11.46%

5 contested · winner IND

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