Madras South #3GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Venkataraman R.

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

14,829 3.1 pp

votes

over Murasoli Maran (DMK)

The contest

8 candidate rows

Electors8,18,878

Votes polled4,80,835

Turnout58.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.41 L53.8% of electorate

Female electors3.78 L46.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 859females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

8 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Venkataraman R.	INC	2,41,033	50.10%
2	Murasoli Maran	DMK	2,26,204	47.00%
3	Srinivasan S.	IND	2,676	0.60%
4	Natarajan K.	IND	1,349	0.30%
5	Raghavan D.	IND	1,323	0.30%
6	Mohammed Ehiya	IND	847	0.20%
7	Rao I.S.	IND	757	0.20%
8	Thirunagar Rathnam	IND	388	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,258, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 474,577 · NOTA n/a · published 480,835 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977