Constituency
383. Palani
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-PALANI
INCI 53.4%won by 13.8%JNP 39.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 13.8%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 53.4% of the vote here (+53.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 39.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.0% between them, down from 98.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.9% to 56.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,62,601
Turnout
56.6%
Valid votes
4,31,997
Margin
59,568
13.79%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCI- 1SANAPATHI GOUNDAR A.INCI · INCI2,30,73353.4%
- 2LAKSHIMIPATHYRAJU P.S.KJanata Party · JNP1,71,16539.6%
- 3KARVENDAN K.Independent · IND21,9255.1%
- 4JHON PEETER S.A.Independent · IND6,0671.4%
- 5APPAN K.K.Independent · IND2,1070.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +13.8%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 53.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 39.6%
- Turnout
- 66.5% → 56.6%