Constituency
391. Nagapattinam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-NAGAPATTINAM
CPI 25.9%won by 0.9%DMK 25.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.9% to 0.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 28.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.0% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.1% to 79.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,84,297
Turnout
79.9%
Valid votes
11,09,848
Margin
9,439
0.85%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1MURUGAIYAN.KCommunist Party of India · CPI2,88,00025.9%
- 2KARUNANITHI-THAZHAIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,78,56125.1%
- 3MAHALINGAM.MAnna Dravidar Kazhagam · ADK2,72,05924.5%
- 4MURUGAYAN K.Communist Party of India · CPI2,67,88724.1%
- 5P.SALVAM.AIndependent · IND2,2000.2%
- 6EMMANUEL RAMARAJ.V.MIndependent · IND1,1410.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–DMK swing
- −7.1%
- CPI share
- 54.0% → 25.9%
- DMK share
- 46.0% → 25.1%
- Turnout
- 77.8% → 79.9%