Constituency
160. Perambalur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-PERAMBALUR
DMK 41.0%won by 6.4%AIADMK 34.6%
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 6.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 24.9% to 41.0% of the vote here (+16.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.6% between them, down from 81.4% — the field split more ways.
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
69,977
Margin
4,456
6.37%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1RAJU, J. S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK28,68041.0%
- 2ANGAMUTHU, M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK24,22434.6%
- 3VADIVELU, K.Independent · IND16,15523.1%
- 4PALANIMUTHU, M.Janata Party · JNP5290.8%
- 5VEPPANTHATAI MATESAN, V.Independent · IND3890.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +38.0%
- DMK share
- 24.9% → 41.0%
- AIADMK share
- 56.5% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —