Constituency
146. Melur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984
TN-MELUR
INC 60.1%won by 26.7%AIADMK 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.3% to 26.7%.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress 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
1,01,143
Margin
27,046
26.74%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1VEERANAMBALAM, D. V.Indian National Congress · INC60,79460.1%
- 2THIYAGARAJAN, K.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK33,74833.4%
- 3PARAMASIVAN, A. M.ICJ · ICJ5,3025.2%
- 4KRISHNAN, S.Independent · IND8210.8%
- 5AYYAVU, A.Independent · IND4780.5%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AIADMK swing
- +14.5%
- INC share
- 54.6% → 60.1%
- AIADMK share
- 42.3% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —