Tirunelveli #36GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Sivaprakasam D.S.A.

DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

Margin

59,962 12.6 pp

votes

over Arunachalam V. (AIADM)

The contest

9 candidate rows

Electors7,02,603

Votes polled4,75,645

Turnout67.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.43 L48.9% of electorate

Female electors3.59 L51.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,047females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

9 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Sivaprakasam D.S.A.	DMK	2,56,626	54.00%
2	Arunachalam V.	AIADM	1,96,664	41.30%
3	Murugesan S.	IND	7,614	1.60%
4	Pandian	IND	2,026	0.40%
5	Chellasamy P.	IND	1,256	0.30%
6	Subba Naicker S.	IND	1,156	0.20%
7	David Nadar	IND	857	0.20%
8	Gnannsundaram Pillai Z.	IND	840	0.20%
9	Ramasamy Reddiar P.	IND	492	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 8,114, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 467,531 · NOTA n/a · published 475,645 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980