Madras South #3GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Venkataraman R.

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

1,20,362 21.8 pp

votes

over Sulochana Sampath E.V.K. (AIADM)

The contest

8 candidate rows

Electors8,11,849

Votes polled5,52,796

Turnout68.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.27 L52.5% of electorate

Female electors3.85 L47.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 903females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

8 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Venkataraman R.	INCI	3,28,836	59.50%
2	Sulochana Sampath E.V.K.	AIADM	2,08,474	37.70%
3	Sadagopan A.	IND	1,930	0.30%
4	Thalapathi C.V. Seman	IND	1,510	0.30%
5	Mohan Nair G.	IND	1,344	0.20%
6	Valliappan V.	IND	1,188	0.20%
7	Jagannathan E.	IND	1,032	0.20%
8	Raghavan	IND	666	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,816, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 544,980 · NOTA n/a · published 552,796 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980