Periyakulam #25GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Ramasamy S.

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Margin

2,04,392 42.5 pp

votes

over Palanivel Rajan (DMK)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors6,93,319

Votes polled4,80,718

Turnout69.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.43 L49.4% of electorate

Female electors3.51 L50.6% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,023females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ramasamy S.	AIADM	3,28,100	68.30%
2	Palanivel Rajan	DMK	1,23,708	25.70%
3	Andithevar K.	IND	12,813	2.70%
4	Surulivelu K.	IND	4,808	1.00%
5	Gunasekaran S.	IND	1,630	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,659, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 471,059 · NOTA n/a · published 480,718 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977