Constituency
97. Kapilamalai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984
TN-KAPILAMALAI
INC 53.5%won by 11.6%IND 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.9% to 53.5% of the vote here (+14.6%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 41.9% — it polled just 1.0% in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.4% of the vote between them, up from 84.0% — 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
95,723
Margin
11,143
11.64%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1P.SENGOTTAIYANIndian National Congress · INC51,23353.5%
- 2K.A. MANIIndependent · IND40,09041.9%
- 3V.P. BADRINARAYANANIndependent · IND1,7381.8%
- 4V.ARIDHASIndependent · IND1,4091.5%
- 5R.KONDAPPANIndependent · IND1,2531.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −26.3%
- INC share
- 38.9% → 53.5%
- IND share
- 1.0% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- — → —