Tiruchengode #17GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Kandaswamy M.

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

21,218 3.9 pp

votes

over Kolanthaivelu R. (AIADM)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors8,89,296

Votes polled5,47,419

Turnout61.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.47 L50.3% of electorate

Female electors4.42 L49.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 988females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Kandaswamy M.	DMK	2,76,015	50.40%
2	Kolanthaivelu R.	AIADM	2,54,797	46.50%
3	Samy R.G.	IND	3,771	0.70%
4	Narayanan E.M.S.	IND	1,298	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,538, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 535,881 · NOTA n/a · published 547,419 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980