Constituency
100. Edappadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984
TN-EDAPPADI
INC 64.8%won by 38.5%DMK 26.3%
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 38.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 18.3% to 64.8% of the vote here (+46.4%).
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 26.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.1% of the vote between them, up from 71.9% — 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
1,05,871
Margin
40,723
38.46%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1GOVINDASWAMYIndian National Congress · INC68,58364.8%
- 2ARUMUGAM, P.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK27,86026.3%
- 3VAITHIGOUNDER, T.Independent · IND6,5576.2%
- 4RAJU, K.Independent · IND2,8712.7%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–DMK swing
- +20.1%
- INC share
- 18.3% → 64.8%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —