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212. Kovilpatti

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984

TN-KOVILPATTI

INC 55.7%won by 21.1%CPI 34.6%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 21.1%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 40.1% to 55.7% of the vote here (+15.6%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
81,840
Margin
17,296
21.13%

Candidates

8 contested · winner INC
  1. 1R.RANGASAMYIndian National Congress · INC45,62355.7%
  2. 2S.ALAGARSAMYCommunist Party of India · CPI28,32734.6%
  3. 3P. SEENIRASUIndependent · IND4,6555.7%
  4. 4V. PAULRAJIndependent · IND9771.2%
  5. 5R.PARAMASIVAMIndependent · IND7150.9%
  6. 6S.PERUMALSAMYIndependent · IND6330.8%
  7. 7T.N.P. RAJUIndependent · IND6270.8%
  8. 8S. SOLAIPPANIndependent · IND2830.3%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPI swing
+32.4%
INC share
40.1% → 55.7%
CPI share
51.4% → 34.6%
Turnout
— → —
211. Ottapidaram213. Sankarankovil
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