Constituency
219. Palayamkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-PALAYAMKOTTAI
AIADMK 58.0%won by 15.9%DMK 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.1% to 15.9%.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 42.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 67.1% — 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
77,729
Margin
12,369
15.91%
Candidates
2 contested · winner AIADMKSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −28.2%
- AIADMK share
- 44.1% → 58.0%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- — → —