Constituency
209. Rajapalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984
TN-RAJAPALAYAM
INC 54.5%won by 9.7%CPI 44.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.2% to 54.5% of the vote here (+20.3%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 44.8% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.3% of the vote between them, up from 78.3% — 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
1,00,331
Margin
9,746
9.71%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RAMAN, K.Indian National Congress · INC54,67054.5%
- 2PAULRAJ-ICommunist Party of India · CPI44,92444.8%
- 3PITCHAI KANNU-SIndependent · IND4990.5%
- 4RAMASAMY, A.Independent · IND2380.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −24.5%
- INC share
- 34.2% → 54.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 44.8%
- Turnout
- — → —