Nagapattinam #30GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Murugaiyan S.G.

CPI Communist Party Of India

Margin

40,810 7.8 pp

votes

over Thazhai Karunnanithi M. (DMK)

The contest

2 candidate rows

Electors6,63,463

Votes polled5,23,928

Turnout79.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.32 L50.1% of electorate

Female electors3.31 L49.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 996females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

2 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Murugaiyan S.G.	CPI	2,78,419	53.10%
2	Thazhai Karunnanithi M.	DMK	2,37,609	45.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,900, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 516,028 · NOTA n/a · published 523,928 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977