Tenkasi #37SC

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Arunachalam M.

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

1,08,316 24.2 pp

votes

over Rajagopalan S. (JP)

The contest

2 candidate rows

Electors6,79,386

Votes polled4,47,818

Turnout65.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.29 L48.5% of electorate

Female electors3.5 L51.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,064females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

2 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Arunachalam M.	INCI	2,72,260	60.80%
2	Rajagopalan S.	JP	1,63,944	36.60%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,614, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 436,204 · NOTA n/a · published 447,818 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980