Nagercoil #39GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Dennis, N.

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

38,408 10.4 pp

votes

over Vijayaraghavan, P. (JP)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors6,63,322

Votes polled3,70,796

Turnout55.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.42 L51.5% of electorate

Female electors3.22 L48.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 942females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Dennis, N.	INCI	1,87,111	50.50%
2	Vijayaraghavan, P.	JP	1,48,703	40.10%
3	Wilson, A.	IND	18,137	4.90%
4	Poomedai Lekshmanan Pillay, S.	IND	4,656	1.30%
5	George, A. J.	IND	2,612	0.70%
6	Duraiswamy Nadar, N.	IND	1,850	0.50%
7	Ponarj, S.	IND	1,536	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,191, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 364,605 · NOTA n/a · published 370,796 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980