Constituency
195. Karaikudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-KARAIKUDI
DMK 51.8%won by 4.3%AIADMK 47.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 4.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 21.3% to 51.8% of the vote here (+30.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 63.8% — 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
89,886
Margin
3,893
4.33%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMKSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +15.1%
- DMK share
- 21.3% → 51.8%
- AIADMK share
- 32.0% → 47.4%
- Turnout
- — → —