Constituency
17. Thiruvottiyur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984
TN-THIRUVOTTIYUR
INC 54.3%won by 9.6%DMK 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: GKC (GKC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.0% to 54.3% of the vote here (+10.3%).
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 44.7% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.9% of the vote between them, up from 91.3% — 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
1,20,141
Margin
11,510
9.58%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1G. K. J. BAARATHIIndian National Congress · INC65,19454.3%
- 2T. K. PALANISWAMYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK53,68444.7%
- 3S. S. MANIIndependent · IND3790.3%
- 4A. BAKTHAVATASALAMIndependent · IND2790.2%
- 5G. MUTHIANICJ · ICJ2370.2%
- 6T. DEVASAGAYANIndependent · IND2100.2%
- 7P. JOHNIndependent · IND1580.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- GKC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–DMK swing
- −34.4%
- INC share
- 44.0% → 54.3%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → —