Pudukkottai #32GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

V.N. Swamynathan

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

16,099 2.7 pp

votes

over Kuzha Chellaiya (AIADM)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors7,43,763

Votes polled6,00,327

Turnout80.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.66 L49.2% of electorate

Female electors3.78 L50.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,031females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	V.N. Swamynathan	INCI	2,94,494	49.10%
2	Kuzha Chellaiya	AIADM	2,78,395	46.40%
3	S. Sooryanarayanan	IND	6,486	1.10%
4	M. Dhandayudhapani	IND	6,389	1.10%
5	K. Ramanujam	JPS	4,150	0.70%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,413, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 589,914 · NOTA n/a · published 600,327 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980