Constituency
212. Kovilpatti
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-KOVILPATTI
CPI 51.4%won by 11.3%INC 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.6% to 11.3%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 40.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.5% of the vote between them, up from 64.9% — 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
76,777
Margin
8,650
11.27%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1ALAGARASAMY, S.Communist Party of India · CPI39,44251.4%
- 2JEYALAKSHMI, V.Indian National Congress · INC30,79240.1%
- 3KALIDAS, S.Janata Party · JNP6,2818.2%
- 4GURUSAMY, A. N. A.Independent · IND2620.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −21.5%
- CPI share
- 32.7% → 51.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- — → —