Arakkonam #6SC

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Velu A.M.

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

1,17,361 25.1 pp

votes

over Ragunathan A.M. (AIADM)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors7,01,433

Votes polled4,68,113

Turnout66.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.46 L49.4% of electorate

Female electors3.55 L50.6% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,025females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Velu A.M.	INCI	2,78,516	59.50%
2	Ragunathan A.M.	AIADM	1,61,155	34.40%
3	Krishnan K.	IND	7,904	1.70%
4	Periasamy Reddiar A.M.	IND	4,153	0.90%
5	Kanthappan A.	IND	3,255	0.70%
6	Janakiraman A.	JPS	2,875	0.60%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,255, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 457,858 · NOTA n/a · published 468,113 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980