Karur #26GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Dorai Sebastian S.A.

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

74,134 14.4 pp

votes

over Kanagaraj K. (AIADM)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors7,62,973

Votes polled5,14,544

Turnout67.4%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.78 L49.6% of electorate

Female electors3.85 L50.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,016females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Dorai Sebastian S.A.	INCI	2,81,149	54.60%
2	Kanagaraj K.	AIADM	2,07,015	40.20%
3	Elamaran P.M.	JPS	11,215	2.20%
4	Apparavo M.	IND	5,250	1.00%
5	Marimuthu V.	IND	2,159	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,756, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 506,788 · NOTA n/a · published 514,544 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980