Madras Central #2GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Kalanidhi A.

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

1,05,049 21.3 pp

votes

over Ramachandran P. (JP)

The contest

8 candidate rows

Electors7,26,953

Votes polled4,93,806

Turnout67.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.89 L53.5% of electorate

Female electors3.38 L46.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 869females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

8 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Kalanidhi A.	DMK	2,90,199	58.80%
2	Ramachandran P.	JP	1,85,150	37.50%
3	Rajagopalan P.	INCU	6,172	1.20%
4	Zainuddin A.K.	IND	1,676	0.30%
5	Chandran K.	IND	1,623	0.30%
6	Shanker Giri V.	IND	1,134	0.20%
7	Loganathan C.P.	IND	789	0.20%
8	Manakchand Nahar	IND	666	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,397, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 487,409 · NOTA n/a · published 493,806 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980