Constituency
185. Papanasam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-PAPANASAM
INC 50.3%won by 4.1%AIADMK 46.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.2% to 4.1%.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 46.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.5% of the vote between them, up from 64.6% — 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
71,766
Margin
2,949
4.11%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAJARAMAN, S.Indian National Congress · INC36,10150.3%
- 2NARAYANASWAMY, GOVIAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK33,15246.2%
- 3SOUNDARARAJAN, R. V.Independent · IND8311.2%
- 4NAGARAJA MOOPANAR, D.Independent · IND6981.0%
- 5SAKKARAI ALIAS GNANA PRAKASAM, V.Janata Party · JNP5600.8%
- 6SELVARAJU, U.Independent · IND2600.4%
- 7RAJA MOHAMMED, P. K.Independent · IND1640.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AIADMK swing
- −29.3%
- INC share
- 33.4% → 50.3%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 46.2%
- Turnout
- — → —