Vandavasi #9GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Pattuswamy D.

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

1,27,154 27.2 pp

votes

over Venugopal Gounder C.A. (AIADM)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors7,14,275

Votes polled4,68,039

Turnout65.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.54 L49.5% of electorate

Female electors3.61 L50.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,020females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Pattuswamy D.	INCI	2,85,549	61.00%
2	Venugopal Gounder C.A.	AIADM	1,58,395	33.80%
3	Natarajan R.A.	INCU	5,327	1.10%
4	Murugesan K.	JPS	5,221	1.10%
5	Sadagopan A.	IND	3,384	0.70%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,163, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 457,876 · NOTA n/a · published 468,039 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980