Salem #16GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Kannan P.

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Margin

79,604 18.1 pp

votes

over Rajaram K. (DMK)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors6,77,947

Votes polled4,40,410

Turnout65.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.43 L50.6% of electorate

Female electors3.35 L49.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 977females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Kannan P.	AIADM	2,54,138	57.70%
2	Rajaram K.	DMK	1,74,534	39.60%
3	Ramalingam B.T.	IND	1,296	0.30%
4	Adhinarayanan N.	IND	1,103	0.30%
5	Ponnusamy T.	IND	1,059	0.20%
6	Asaithambi K.	IND	739	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,541, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 432,869 · NOTA n/a · published 440,410 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977