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HIMACHAL PRADESH · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Balak Ram

BLD Bharatiya Lok Dal

Margin

87,291 31.9 pp

votes

over Zalam Singh (INC)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors4,65,720

Votes polled2,73,489

Turnout58.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors2.46 L52.8% of electorate

Female electors2.2 L47.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 893females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Balak Ram	BLD	1,72,763	63.20%
2	Zalam Singh	INC	85,472	31.30%
3	Telu Ram Baidwan	IND	9,065	3.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,189, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 267,300 · NOTA n/a · published 273,489 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977