Periyakulam #25GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Natarajan Cumbum N.

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

19,882 3.9 pp

votes

over Ramasamy S. (AIADM)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors7,35,391

Votes polled5,06,263

Turnout68.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.64 L49.5% of electorate

Female electors3.71 L50.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,019females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Natarajan Cumbum N.	DMK	2,55,204	50.40%
2	Ramasamy S.	AIADM	2,35,322	46.50%
3	Surulivelu	IND	6,934	1.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 8,803, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 497,460 · NOTA n/a · published 506,263 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980