Constituency
378. Tiruchengode
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-TIRUCHENGODE
DMK 51.5%won by 4.0%ADK 47.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Anna Dravidar Kazhagam (ADK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 4.0%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 34.4% to 51.5% of the vote here (+17.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.1% of the vote between them, up from 94.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,89,296
Turnout
60.3%
Valid votes
5,35,881
Margin
21,218
3.96%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1KANDASWAMY M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,76,01551.5%
- 2KOLANTHAIVELU R.Anna Dravidar Kazhagam · ADK2,54,79747.5%
- 3SAMY R.G.Independent · IND3,7710.7%
- 4NARAYANAN E.M.S.Independent · IND1,2980.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- ADK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADK swing
- +29.1%
- DMK share
- 34.4% → 51.5%
- ADK share
- 59.6% → 47.5%
- Turnout
- 61.7% → 60.3%