Constituency
399. Tiruchendur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-TIRUCHENDUR
INCI 51.8%won by 25.9%JNP 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 25.9%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 51.8% of the vote here (+51.8%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 25.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.6% between them, down from 95.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,04,399
Turnout
62.3%
Valid votes
4,39,140
Margin
1,13,819
25.92%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INCI- 1KOSALRAM K. T.INCI · INCI2,27,39551.8%
- 2SOUNTHARA PANDIAN, N.Janata Party · JNP1,13,57625.9%
- 3ANATHANIndependent · IND75,02017.1%
- 4PILLAIJNPS · JNPS14,1063.2%
- 5KANAKASABAI ALIAS MOSESIndependent · IND3,3900.8%
- 6ALAGAPPAN, P.Independent · IND2,2000.5%
- 7HARIHARA IYER, N.Independent · IND1,6660.4%
- 8SHUNMUGAVVEL, E.Independent · IND9650.2%
- 9DURAISSWAMY NADARIndependent · IND8220.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +25.9%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 51.8%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- 62.6% → 62.3%