Constituency
36. Katpadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1980
TN-KATPADI
CPI 46.5%won by 7.7%INC 38.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 7.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 46.5% of the vote here (+46.5%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.3% of the vote between them, up from 69.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
68,676
Margin
5,279
7.69%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1POONGAVANAM, N. ACommunist Party of India · CPI31,91846.5%
- 2SHANMUGASUNDARAM, A. KIndian National Congress · INC26,63938.8%
- 3RANGA REDDY, T. RJanata Party · JNP7,21410.5%
- 4JAYAVELU, M.AIndependent · IND2,9054.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +12.1%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 46.5%
- INC share
- 4.4% → 38.8%
- Turnout
- — → —