Constituency
42. Chengam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984
TN-CHENGAM
AIADMK 61.4%won by 33.2%JNP 28.2%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.5% to 33.2%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 28.2% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Safe seatAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
74,520
Margin
24,731
33.19%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AIADMK- 1T. SWAMIKANNUAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK45,77061.4%
- 2P. ANBALAGANJanata Party · JNP21,03928.2%
- 3A. KANNANIndependent · IND4,7216.3%
- 4N. VATTARUIndependent · IND2,6153.5%
- 5ALLIMUTHU, K. V.Independent · IND3750.5%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–JNP swing
- −14.9%
- AIADMK share
- 48.1% → 61.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 28.2%
- Turnout
- — → —