Constituency
183. Thanjavur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-THANJAVUR
DMK 50.6%won by 1.2%IND 49.4%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.2% to 1.2%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 49.4% — it polled just 0.5% in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 71.3% — 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
80,781
Margin
979
1.21%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1NATARAJAN, S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK40,88050.6%
- 2RAMAMURTHY, A.Independent · IND39,90149.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–IND swing
- −40.0%
- DMK share
- 41.7% → 50.6%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 49.4%
- Turnout
- — → —