Constituency
227. Tuticorin
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-TUTICORIN
AIADMK 57.6%won by 15.7%DMK 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.5% to 15.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.5% of the vote between them, up from 57.1% — 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
94,032
Margin
14,806
15.75%
Candidates
3 contested · winner AIADMKSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +8.3%
- AIADMK share
- 29.3% → 57.6%
- DMK share
- 21.9% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- — → —