Constituency
162. Ariyalur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-ARIYALUR
DMK 52.5%won by 10.5%AIADMK 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.6% to 10.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.5% of the vote between them, up from 77.9% — 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
87,531
Margin
9,204
10.52%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1ARUMUGAM, T.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK45,98052.5%
- 2ASOKAN.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK36,77642.0%
- 3ARAMIRDHAM, A. S.Independent · IND3,6954.2%
- 4GANESAN, A.Independent · IND7380.8%
- 5MURUGESAN, K.Independent · IND3420.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +8.9%
- DMK share
- 39.7% → 52.5%
- AIADMK share
- 38.1% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- — → —