Constituency
204. Aruppukkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-ARUPPUKKOTTAI
AIADMK 53.7%won by 14.7%DMK 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.4% to 14.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.6% of the vote between them, up from 74.1% — 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
79,347
Margin
11,685
14.73%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AIADMK- 1PITUHAI, M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK42,58953.7%
- 2THANGAPANDIAN, V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK30,90438.9%
- 3KARUPPIAH, K.Independent · IND4,7426.0%
- 4PALANI KUDUMBAN, K.Independent · IND5070.6%
- 5KARALAN, K.Independent · IND3180.4%
- 6JAWAHAR, K.Independent · IND1570.2%
- 7RAMASAMY, P.Independent · IND1300.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −34.4%
- AIADMK share
- 56.2% → 53.7%
- DMK share
- 7.1% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —