Constituency
228. Kanniyakumari
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-KANNIYAKUMARI
AIADMK 47.6%won by 9.5%INC 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.3% to 9.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.7% of the vote between them, up from 56.3% — 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
74,851
Margin
7,098
9.48%
Candidates
4 contested · winner AIADMK- 1MUTHUKRISHNAN, S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK35,61347.6%
- 2MATHEVAN PILLAI, A.Indian National Congress · INC28,51538.1%
- 3ANANDAN, P.Janata Party · JNP6,9869.3%
- 4ARULDHAS, P.Independent · IND3,7375.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–INC swing
- −13.1%
- AIADMK share
- 33.3% → 47.6%
- INC share
- 10.8% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —