Salem #16GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Palaniappan C.

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

26,258 5.6 pp

votes

over Kamnan P. (AIADM)

The contest

11 candidate rows

Electors6,91,389

Votes polled4,70,633

Turnout68.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.49 L50.5% of electorate

Female electors3.42 L49.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 981females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

11 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Palaniappan C.	DMK	2,33,971	49.70%
2	Kamnan P.	AIADM	2,07,713	44.10%
3	Gandhinathan M.	INCU	5,381	1.10%
4	Sambalingam T.	IND	3,327	0.70%
5	Balasubramaniam P.N.	IND	3,007	0.60%
6	Ramaswami M.	IND	1,864	0.40%
7	Vasanthi Muthu	IND	1,442	0.30%
8	Vadivelu B.	IND	1,092	0.20%
9	Kangani C.N.	IND	953	0.20%
10	Kandasamy P.	IND	918	0.20%
11	Thambi (Sakkari Gounder )S.C.	IND	440	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,525, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 460,108 · NOTA n/a · published 470,633 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980