| Election Name: | 1980 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election |
| Country: | India |
| Type: | legislative |
| Vote Type: | Popular |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1977 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election |
| Previous Year: | 1977 |
| Election Date: | 1 March 1980 |
| Next Election: | 1985 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election |
| Next Year: | 1985 |
| Seats For Election: | 30 seats in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 16 |
| Turnout: | 80.41% |
| Party1: | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| Image1: | Indian election symbol rising sun.svg |
| Leader1: | M. D. R. Ramachandran |
| Seats1: | 14 |
| Seats Before1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 27.73% |
| Seat Change1: | 11 |
| Party2: | Indian National Congress (Indira) |
| Seats2: | 10 |
| Seats Before2: | 2 |
| Popular Vote2: | 23.92% |
| Seat Change2: | 8 |
| CM | |
| Before Election: | President's rule |
| After Party: | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| After Election: | M. D. R. Ramachandran |
Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in March 1980, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry (then known as Pondicherry), in India.[1] [2] The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won the popular vote and the most seats, and M. D. R. Ramachandran was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.[3] [4]
| Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Names | % | Candidate | Party | data-sort-type=number | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | data-sort-type=number | Votes | % | ||
| 1 | 78.09% | G. Palani Raja | 7,396 | 63.71% | A. V. Vaithilingam | 3,456 | 29.77% | 3,940 | ||||||
| 2 | 72.91% | V. Kathirvelu | 3,948 | 51.63% | Ansari P. Duraisamy | 1,716 | 22.44% | 2,232 | ||||||
| 3 | 65.46% | L. Joseph Mariadass | 1,880 | 45.92% | V. Subbiah | 1,082 | 26.43% | 798 | ||||||
| 4 | 73.12% | C. M. Achraff | 2,898 | 69.36% | R. P. Joseph | 716 | 17.14% | 2,182 | ||||||
| 5 | 77.39% | Sitha Vedanayagam | 5,419 | 70.06% | C. N. Parthasarathy | 2,177 | 28.14% | 3,242 | ||||||
| 6 | 75.61% | Na. Manimaran Alias Na. Marimuthu | 5,721 | 59.70% | P. K. Loganathan | 2,820 | 29.43% | 2,901 | ||||||
| 7 | 77.64% | P. Ramalingam | 4,019 | 53.80% | B. Manimaran | 2,110 | 28.25% | 1,909 | ||||||
| 8 | 82.30% | V. Kothandaraman Sababathy | 5,258 | 48.39% | M. Manjini | 2,950 | 27.15% | 2,308 | ||||||
| 9 | 81.94% | 5,900 | 57.57% | M. Pandurangan | 3,628 | 35.40% | 2,272 | |||||||
| 10 | 83.58% | G. Murugesan | 5,033 | 68.30% | N. Ramajayam | 1,773 | 24.06% | 3,260 | ||||||
| 11 | 89.86% | R. Subbaraya Gounder | 4,201 | 49.89% | 4,076 | 48.40% | 125 | |||||||
| 12 | 88.52% | M. A. Shanmugam | 3,738 | 42.59% | K. R. Subramaniya Padayachi | 2,725 | 31.05% | 1,013 | ||||||
| 13 | 84.08% | P. Uthiravelu | 4,154 | 51.40% | A. Ramamurthy | 2,562 | 31.70% | 1,592 | ||||||
| 14 | 79.81% | P. Cattavarayane | 6,001 | 72.08% | D. Annamalai | 2,269 | 27.26% | 3,732 | ||||||
| 15 | 89.22% | D. Ramachandran | 5,598 | 61.09% | S. Manickavachakan | 3,566 | 38.91% | 2,032 | ||||||
| 16 | 80.70% | P. Murthy | 5,122 | 66.48% | K. Dhakshinamurthy | 2,374 | 30.82% | 2,748 | ||||||
| 17 | 82.20% | M. Venugopal | 3,810 | 44.23% | S. Sellappan Alias Meenakshisundaram | 3,065 | 35.58% | 745 | ||||||
| 18 | 84.39% | G. Perumal Raja | 5,493 | 65.98% | R. Somasimdara | 2,685 | 32.25% | 2,808 | ||||||
| 19 | 78.86% | V. Pethaperumal | 4,824 | 48.85% | N. Kandeban | 2,554 | 25.86% | 2,270 | ||||||
| 20 | 76.53% | Renuka Appadurai | 5,409 | 52.49% | N. Gurusamy | 2,516 | 24.42% | 2,893 | ||||||
| 21 | 82.88% | 8,980 | 78.68% | G. Gopalakrishnan | 2,126 | 18.63% | 6,854 | |||||||
| 22 | 84.62% | G. Panjavarnam | 4,133 | 49.93% | T. Subbaiya | 2,504 | 30.25% | 1,629 | ||||||
| 23 | 68.80% | V. M. Salih Maricar | 4,778 | 55.25% | M. Jembulingam | 2,194 | 25.37% | 2,584 | ||||||
| 24 | 78.17% | S. Savarirajan | 4,867 | 64.40% | 2,218 | 29.35% | 2,649 | |||||||
| 25 | 83.00% | 5,315 | 57.35% | V. M. C. Varada Pillai | 3,953 | 42.65% | 1,362 | |||||||
| 26 | 84.00% | N. V. Ramalingam | 3,573 | 44.44% | A. Soundararengam | 3,400 | 42.29% | 173 | ||||||
| 27 | 83.45% | M. Chandirakasu | 4,981 | 65.23% | P. Natesan | 1,751 | 22.93% | 3,230 | ||||||
| 28 | 77.20% | K. V. Raghavan | 2,638 | 48.17% | C. V. Sulaiman Hajee | 2,174 | 39.70% | 464 | ||||||
| 29 | 80.07% | N. K. Sachindranath | 2,567 | 45.89% | A. V. Sreedharan | 2,467 | 44.10% | 100 | ||||||
| 30 | 87.41% | 2,433 | 48.43% | Abdul Khader Jeelani Mohammed | 2,165 | 43.09% | 268 | |||||||