Constituency
4. Park Town
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984
TN-PARK-TOWN
DMK 50.9%won by 4.0%IND 46.9%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.9% to 4.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 46.9% — it polled just 0.2% in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.8% of the vote between them, up from 90.0% — 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
73,770
Margin
2,927
3.97%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1K. ANBAZHAGANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK37,54050.9%
- 2JOTHI, M.Independent · IND34,61346.9%
- 3BACHUBHAI M. PATILIndependent · IND5480.7%
- 4M. S. MANIIndependent · IND3140.4%
- 5JAGAJOTHIIndependent · IND2360.3%
- 6MOHAMED BILALIndependent · IND2010.3%
- 7M. S. ELANGO ALIAS MANOHARANIndependent · IND1690.2%
- 8K. MURALIIndependent · IND1490.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–IND swing
- −51.8%
- DMK share
- 55.9% → 50.9%
- IND share
- 0.2% → 46.9%
- Turnout
- — → —