Constituency
206. Virudhunagar
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-VIRUDHUNAGAR
AIADMK 48.9%won by 12.9%DMK 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.8% to 12.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.8% of the vote between them, up from 75.2% — 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
82,454
Margin
10,620
12.88%
Candidates
3 contested · winner AIADMKSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −20.4%
- AIADMK share
- 44.5% → 48.9%
- DMK share
- 11.2% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- — → —