Patiala #8SC

PUNJAB · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Gurcharan Sing Tohra

SAD Shiromani Akali Dal

Margin

90,317 19.5 pp

votes

over Amarender Singh (INC)

The contest

8 candidate rows

Electors6,06,187

Votes polled4,62,560

Turnout76.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.4 L56.1% of electorate

Female electors2.66 L43.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 783females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

8 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Gurcharan Sing Tohra	SAD	2,65,111	57.30%
2	Amarender Singh	INC	1,74,794	37.80%
3	Gopal Chand	IND	3,082	0.70%
4	Arjan Singh	IND	2,656	0.60%
5	Sher Singh	IND	2,163	0.50%
6	Mohinderpal Singh	IND	1,931	0.40%
7	Gurdip Singh	IND	1,726	0.40%
8	Suresh Kapoor	IND	1,113	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,984, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 452,576 · NOTA n/a · published 462,560 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977