Pondicherry #1GEN

PUDUCHERRY · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

P. Shanmugam

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

98,564 38.4 pp

votes

over M.R. Lakshminarayanan (JP)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors3,19,237

Votes polled2,56,539

Turnout80.4%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors1.62 L50.8% of electorate

Female electors1.57 L49.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 970females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	P. Shanmugam	INCI	1,64,589	64.20%
2	M.R. Lakshminarayanan	JP	66,025	25.70%
3	P. Devaraj	JPS	17,067	6.70%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 8,858, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 247,681 · NOTA n/a · published 256,539 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980