Constituency
203. Mudhukulathur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984
TN-MUDHUKULATHUR
IND 37.3%won by 10.0%DMK 27.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.7% to 10.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 27.4% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.7% between them, down from 96.2% — the field split more ways.
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
86,244
Margin
8,588
9.96%
Candidates
10 contested · winner IND- 1MUTHUVEL, K.Independent · IND32,19937.3%
- 2KATHER BATCHA ALIAS VELLACHAMY, S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK23,61127.4%
- 3ALANKARAM, M.Independent · IND23,38527.1%
- 4MARUTHUPANDIAN, A.Independent · IND3,4384.0%
- 5JEYARAJ, A.ICJ · ICJ1,4461.7%
- 6HASAN MOHAMMED, N.Independent · IND8261.0%
- 7MOHANMEDKASIM, CMMIndependent · IND7530.9%
- 8RAMAN, E.Independent · IND2520.3%
- 9MATHANA MEERA, T.K.S.Independent · IND2480.3%
- 10MURUGESADASAN, P.Independent · IND860.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–DMK swing
- −41.5%
- IND share
- 51.4% → 37.3%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 27.4%
- Turnout
- — → —