Karur #26GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Gopal K.

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

1,45,520 28.1 pp

votes

over Meenakshisundaram M. (INCO)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors7,32,872

Votes polled5,17,913

Turnout70.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.64 L49.6% of electorate

Female electors3.69 L50.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,015females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Gopal K.	INC	3,15,259	60.90%
2	Meenakshisundaram M.	INCO	1,69,739	32.80%
3	Sandhanam M.	IND	19,618	3.80%
4	Ramasamy Reddiar O.P.	IND	1,780	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,517, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 506,396 · NOTA n/a · published 517,913 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977