Ernakulam #11GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Xavier Varghese Arakal

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

2,502 0.6 pp

votes

over Henry Austin (INCU)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors6,75,831

Votes polled3,98,409

Turnout59.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.42 L50.6% of electorate

Female electors3.34 L49.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 977females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Xavier Varghese Arakal	INCI	1,89,225	47.50%
2	Henry Austin	INCU	1,86,723	46.90%
3	Sreenivasan M.S. Madhavan	IND	9,808	2.50%
4	Sukumaran Pottekat	IND	4,206	1.10%
5	I. Velayudhan	IND	2,082	0.50%
6	Sreenivasan Kochunny	IND	1,981	0.50%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 4,384, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 394,025 · NOTA n/a · published 398,409 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980