Constituency
231. Padmanabhapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-PADMANABHAPURAM
JNP 37.3%won by 4.4%GKC 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.0% to 4.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerGKC (GKC) finished second with 32.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.2% between them, down from 78.6% — the field split more ways.
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
53,017
Margin
2,324
4.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner JNP- 1MUTHAMMAD ISMAIL, P.Janata Party · JNP19,75837.3%
- 2LAWRENCE, K.GKC · GKC17,43432.9%
- 3PAULIAH, A.Indian National Congress · INC15,61829.5%
- 4SELVAMONY, B.Independent · IND1470.3%
- 5JOSEPH, T. C.Independent · IND600.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–GKC swing
- −43.4%
- JNP share
- 47.8% → 37.3%
- GKC share
- 0.0% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- — → —