Nagapattinam #30GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Karunanithi-Thazhai

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

10,674 1.9 pp

votes

over Murugayan K. (CPI)

The contest

2 candidate rows

Electors6,84,297

Votes polled5,53,290

Turnout80.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.45 L50.3% of electorate

Female electors3.4 L49.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 986females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

2 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Karunanithi-Thazhai	DMK	2,78,561	50.30%
2	Murugayan K.	CPI	2,67,887	48.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,842, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 546,448 · NOTA n/a · published 553,290 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980