Constituency
225. Tiruchendur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-TIRUCHENDUR
AIADMK 49.5%won by 1.7%DMK 47.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 1.6% to 1.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.3% of the vote between them, up from 56.7% — 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
71,730
Margin
1,205
1.68%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AIADMK- 1KESAVA ATHITHAN, S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK35,49949.5%
- 2SAMSUDIN ALIAS KATHIRAVANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,29447.8%
- 3KESAVAN, K.Independent · IND9481.3%
- 4JOHN BRITTO, G. A. T.Janata Party · JNP7071.0%
- 5SEYED AHAMED, M. P.Independent · IND1610.2%
- 6KANDASAMY, K. P.Independent · IND650.1%
- 7RAMADOSS, M. S.Independent · IND560.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −3.1%
- AIADMK share
- 29.1% → 49.5%
- DMK share
- 24.3% → 47.8%
- Turnout
- — → —