Constituency
398. Tenkasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-TENKASI
INCI 62.4%won by 24.8%JNP 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 24.8%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 62.4% of the vote here (+62.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 37.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,79,386
Turnout
64.2%
Valid votes
4,36,204
Margin
1,08,316
24.83%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCI- 1ARUNACHALAM M.INCI · INCI2,72,26062.4%
- 2RAJAGOPALAN S.Janata Party · JNP1,63,94437.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +24.8%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 62.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- 65.4% → 64.2%