Constituency
159. Lalgudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-LALGUDI
DMK 40.9%won by 2.8%IND 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 2.8%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 34.4% to 40.9% of the vote here (+6.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 38.1% — it polled just 0.9% in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.0% of the vote between them, up from 70.5% — 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
99,995
Margin
2,800
2.80%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1ANBIL DHARMALINGAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK40,89940.9%
- 2SWAMICKAN, A.Independent · IND38,09938.1%
- 3GANGADHARAN, R.Independent · IND16,01616.0%
- 4PERUMAL, A. K.Independent · IND4,9815.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–IND swing
- −30.7%
- DMK share
- 34.4% → 40.9%
- IND share
- 0.9% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —