Constituency
368. Vellore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-VELLORE
IND 55.1%won by 18.9%JNP 36.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: NCO (NCO) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 18.9%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 48.5% to 55.1% of the vote here (+6.6%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 36.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.4% between them, down from 97.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 8.4% to 59.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,07,512
Turnout
59.6%
Valid votes
4,21,976
Margin
79,546
18.85%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1ABDUL SAMAD A.K.A.Independent · IND2,32,56755.1%
- 2DHANDAYUTHAPANI V.Janata Party · JNP1,53,02136.3%
- 3TAMILMANI M.J.JNPS · JNPS16,0073.8%
- 4CHICHA (ALIAS) LOGANATHA NAIDU A.Independent · IND8,9392.1%
- 5KAMALAKANAN G.Independent · IND5,3391.3%
- 6SESHAN I.S.Independent · IND4,1201.0%
- 7GANESAN P.S.Independent · IND1,9830.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- NCO
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JNP swing
- −29.7%
- IND share
- 48.5% → 55.1%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- 68.0% → 59.6%