Election
Constituency

36. Katpadi

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984

TN-KATPADI

AIADMK 57.1%won by 17.5%DMK 39.6%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 17.5%.

  • AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 57.1% of the vote here (+57.1%).
  • New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 39.6% — it did not contest here in 1980.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 85.3% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
92,988
Margin
16,238
17.46%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
AIADMKflipped
AIADMKDMK swing
+17.5%
AIADMK share
0.0% 57.1%
DMK share
0.0% 39.6%
Turnout