Constituency
194. Tiruppattur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-TIRUPPATTUR
INC 42.0%won by 17.4%IND 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 17.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.3% to 42.0% of the vote here (+19.7%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 66.6% of the vote between them, up from 53.2% — 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
81,776
Margin
14,226
17.40%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1VALMIGI, V.Indian National Congress · INC34,34242.0%
- 2MADHAVAN, S.Independent · IND20,11624.6%
- 3SHANMUGAM KOOTHAKUDI, S.Communist Party of India · CPI18,14122.2%
- 4SAMIAPPAN ALIAS ANDIAPPANIndependent · IND8,19910.0%
- 5VALLANATTAN, A.Independent · IND6960.9%
- 6VIRABHATHIRAN, A.Independent · IND2820.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −1.9%
- INC share
- 22.3% → 42.0%
- IND share
- 3.0% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —