Chidambaram #12GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1984

Won

Vallalperuman P.

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

1,20,891 21.4 pp

votes

over Kannapiran S. (DMK)

The contest

2 candidate rows

Electors7,34,012

Votes polled5,65,913

Turnout77.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.71 L50.5% of electorate

Female electors3.63 L49.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 979females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

2 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Vallalperuman P.	INC	3,29,892	58.30%
2	Kannapiran S.	DMK	2,09,001	36.90%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 27,020, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 538,893 · NOTA n/a · published 565,913 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1984