Chandrapur #26GEN

MAHARASHTRA · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Shantaram Potdukhe

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

72,890 18.4 pp

votes

over Raje Vishweshwarrao (JP)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors6,81,948

Votes polled3,96,987

Turnout58.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.42 L50.1% of electorate

Female electors3.4 L49.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 994females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Shantaram Potdukhe	INCI	2,06,400	52.00%
2	Raje Vishweshwarrao	JP	1,33,510	33.60%
3	Pratima Nuruddin	JPS	23,804	6.00%
4	Ram Chandra Dange	RPI	19,416	4.90%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,857, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 383,130 · NOTA n/a · published 396,987 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980