Constituency
197. Ilayangudi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-ILAYANGUDI
CPI 46.5%won by 0.1%DMK 46.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.1% to 0.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 47.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 56 votes (0.08%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
74,048
Margin
56
0.08%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1SIVASAMY, S.Communist Party of India · CPI34,43746.5%
- 2MALAIKKANNAN, V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,38146.4%
- 3KALIMUTHAN, M. P.Independent · IND3,3434.5%
- 4SUBRAMANIAN, R.Independent · IND1,3421.8%
- 5SEENIPPULAVAR, N. N. K.Independent · IND5450.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–DMK swing
- −1.0%
- CPI share
- 24.2% → 46.5%
- DMK share
- 23.1% → 46.4%
- Turnout
- — → —