Constituency
229. Nagercoil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-NAGERCOIL
AIADMK 54.8%won by 12.9%DMK 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.3% to 12.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.6% of the vote between them, up from 72.6% — 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
71,824
Margin
9,283
12.92%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AIADMK- 1VINCENT, M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK39,32854.8%
- 2THIRAVIAM, A.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK30,04541.8%
- 3KURUZMICHCAL, A.Janata Party · JNP1,5122.1%
- 4GANDHI, M. R.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP6931.0%
- 5RAMACHANDRAN, R.Independent · IND1310.2%
- 6SUGANANTHAM, M.Independent · IND1150.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −6.2%
- AIADMK share
- 36.5% → 54.8%
- DMK share
- 17.3% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- — → —