Chidambaram #12GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Murugesan A.

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Margin

1,09,234 23.8 pp

votes

over Rajangam N. (DMK)

The contest

2 candidate rows

Electors6,63,634

Votes polled4,59,817

Turnout69.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.34 L50.3% of electorate

Female electors3.3 L49.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 988females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

2 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Murugesan A.	AIADM	2,78,406	60.50%
2	Rajangam N.	DMK	1,69,172	36.80%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,239, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 447,578 · NOTA n/a · published 459,817 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977