Ropar #7GEN

PUNJAB · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Basant Singh

SAD Shiromani Akali Dal

Margin

82,572 16.8 pp

votes

over Buta Singh (INC)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors6,37,090

Votes polled4,91,388

Turnout77.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.54 L55.6% of electorate

Female electors2.83 L44.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 800females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Basant Singh	SAD	2,76,418	56.30%
2	Buta Singh	INC	1,93,846	39.40%
3	Balaki Ram	IND	6,421	1.30%
4	Kaka Singh	IND	5,322	1.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,381, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 482,007 · NOTA n/a · published 491,388 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977