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Tamil Nadu · Assembly Constituency 194

TiruppatturAssembly by-election result, 1981

Arunagiri.r (INC(I)) won Tiruppattur in the 1981 assembly by-election with 54.7% of the vote, beating T.Yadhavar.t.s.s. (JNP) by 25,068 votes.

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Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1971, seat no. 194 was Tiruvadanai. Seat boundaries were redrawn after 2006. From 2011, seat no. 194 is Madurai West. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.

Winner

ARUNAGIRI.R
INC(I)
INC(I) 54.7%JNP 22.6%11 others 22.8%
Votes
42,676
54.7% share
Winning margin
25,068
32.1% of votes
Candidates
13

A comfortable win — ARUNAGIRI.R won by 32.1%.

Seat history

All Candidates

13 candidates
#CandidatePartyVotes · %
1
ARUNAGIRI.R
INC(I)
INC(I)
42,67654.7%
2
T.YADHAVAR.T.S.S.
JNP
JNP
17,60822.6%
3
SHANMUGAM.V.R
CPI
CPI
11,51514.8%
4
S.A.KAV
IND
IND
1,6632.1%
5
SAKUNTALA.A(W)
IND
IND
1,3071.7%
6
GOVINDAN.V
IND
IND
9331.2%
7
R.REDDI.R
IND
IND
5890.8%
8
V.GOUNDER.V.T.R
IND
IND
3860.5%
9
RAJENDRAN.A
IND
IND
3740.5%
10
S.T.DOCTOR.C.V
IND
IND
3040.4%
11
M.A.PANAI
IND
IND
2880.4%
12
KULANDAIVEL.M
IND
IND
2600.3%
13
JAGANNATHAN.E
IND
IND
1530.2%

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A comfortable margin, a two-to-three-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
32.1%

winning margin, share of votes

How many parties were really in the race?

SEAT
Two or three

INC(I), JNP and CPI took 92% of the votes.

Parties in the race 2.68

How did the vote split?

SEAT
54.7%won by INC(I)
INC(I) 54.7%JNP 22.6%CPI 14.8%Others 8.0%

This seat number was reused from 2011. The district data on file describe the seat as contested from 2011, so they are not shown for earlier elections.

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Who has won Tiruppattur, 1977–2006

  1. 1977S. SHANMUGAM KOOTHAGUDI (CPI), margin 0.4%
  2. 1980VALMIGI, V. (INC(I)), margin 17.4%
  3. 1984MADHAVAN, S. (ADK), margin 25.5%
  4. 1989THENNARASU S.S. (DMK), margin 11.1%
  5. 1991S. KANNAPPAN (ADK), margin 32.8%
  6. 1996R. SIVARAMAN (DMK), margin 18.6%
  7. 2001UMADHEVAN. KK (ADMK), margin 9.2%
  8. 2006PERIYAKARUPPAN.K.R (DMK), margin 5.2%