Election
Constituency

216. Tenkasi

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980

TN-TENKASI

AIADMK 49.9%won by 0.9%INC 49.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 0.9%.

  • AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 49.9% of the vote here (+49.9%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.8% of the vote between them, up from 66.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
73,457
Margin
675
0.92%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
AIADMKflipped
AIADMKINC swing
+42.3%
AIADMK share
0.0% 49.9%
INC share
41.4% 49.0%
Turnout