Rasipuram #15GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Devarajan B.

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

1,33,438 29.5 pp

votes

over Jothivenkatachallum (INCO)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors7,16,448

Votes polled4,53,058

Turnout63.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.55 L49.6% of electorate

Female electors3.61 L50.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,015females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Devarajan B.	INC	2,75,212	60.70%
2	Jothivenkatachallum	INCO	1,41,774	31.30%
3	Vajravel M.	IND	24,793	5.50%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,279, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 441,779 · NOTA n/a · published 453,058 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977