Constituency
152. Karur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-KARUR
AIADMK 50.8%won by 7.8%DMK 43.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.0% to 7.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.8% of the vote between them, up from 58.2% — 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
1,06,981
Margin
8,306
7.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AIADMK- 1CHINNASAMY, M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK54,33150.8%
- 2NALLASAMY, S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK46,02543.0%
- 3SIVASAMY, P.Janata Party · JNP5,4655.1%
- 4NATESAN, N.Independent · IND8280.8%
- 5APPAVOO, M.Independent · IND3320.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −4.3%
- AIADMK share
- 35.1% → 50.8%
- DMK share
- 23.1% → 43.0%
- Turnout
- — → —