Tiruchengode #17GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Kolanthaivelu R.

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Margin

1,28,180 24.5 pp

votes

over Muthusamy M. (DMK)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors8,26,331

Votes polled5,22,305

Turnout63.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.18 L50.6% of electorate

Female electors4.08 L49.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 977females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Kolanthaivelu R.	AIADM	3,03,738	58.20%
2	Muthusamy M.	DMK	1,75,558	33.60%
3	Rajalingam K.	IND	23,020	4.40%
4	Seerangam C.	IND	7,468	1.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,521, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 509,784 · NOTA n/a · published 522,305 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977