Constituency
210. Vilathikulam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-VILATHIKULAM
AIADMK 53.8%won by 8.8%DMK 45.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.1% to 8.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 71.7% — 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
75,766
Margin
6,640
8.76%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AIADMK- 1PERUMAL R.K.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK40,72853.8%
- 2KUMARAGURUBARA RAMANATHAN S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,08845.0%
- 3THOMAS T.Independent · IND3670.5%
- 4CHELLASAMY P.Independent · IND3430.5%
- 5RAMAKRISHNA BHAT Y.Independent · IND1320.2%
- 6PERUMALSAMY NAICKER O.S.Independent · IND1080.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −16.4%
- AIADMK share
- 38.4% → 53.8%
- DMK share
- 13.2% → 45.0%
- Turnout
- — → —