Constituency
209. Rajapalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-RAJAPALAYAM
IND 44.1%won by 9.9%INC 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 9.9%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.5% to 44.1% of the vote here (+43.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.3% of the vote between them, up from 69.9% — 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
87,003
Margin
8,581
9.86%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1MOKKIAN P.Independent · IND38,33944.1%
- 2POTTU POTTAN K.Indian National Congress · INC29,75834.2%
- 3CHINNASWAMY A.Independent · IND17,11919.7%
- 4MARAN S.S.Independent · IND1,2981.5%
- 5PARAMAN K.Independent · IND4890.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +41.7%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 44.1%
- INC share
- 32.4% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- — → —