Chidambaram #12GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Kulandaivelu V.

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

1,38,725 28.5 pp

votes

over Mahalingam S. (CPIM)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors6,94,357

Votes polled4,87,049

Turnout70.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.47 L50.0% of electorate

Female electors3.47 L50.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 999females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Kulandaivelu V.	DMK	3,02,523	62.10%
2	Mahalingam S.	CPIM	1,63,798	33.60%
3	Duraiswamy R.N.	IND	5,984	1.20%
4	Duraivelavan D.	IND	3,430	0.70%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,314, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 475,735 · NOTA n/a · published 487,049 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980