Constituency
172. Kuttalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-KUTTALAM
DMK 53.4%won by 13.1%CPM 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.7% to 13.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.6% of the vote between them, up from 69.1% — 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
82,892
Margin
10,890
13.14%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1RAJAMANICKAM, R.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK44,25453.4%
- 2VEERAIYAN, G.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM33,36440.2%
- 3IDUMPAIYAN, R.Independent · IND5,2746.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–CPM swing
- +2.4%
- DMK share
- 39.9% → 53.4%
- CPM share
- 29.2% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- — → —