Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Sivakasi #35GEN
Won
V. Jayalakshmi
INC Indian National CongressMargin
1,14,848 22.5 pp
votes
over G. Ramanujam (INCO)
The contest
Electors7,22,380
Votes polled5,09,445
Turnout70.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors3.53 L48.9% of electorate
Female electors3.69 L51.1% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,044females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | V. Jayalakshmi | INC | 2,71,568 | 53.30% | |
| 2 | G. Ramanujam | INCO | 1,56,720 | 30.80% | |
| 3 | S.P. Raju | IND | 41,707 | 8.20% | |
| 4 | P. Muthu Ramanuja Thevar | IND | 10,551 | 2.10% | |
| 5 | A.K. Kandasamy Pandian | IND | 6,457 | 1.30% | |
| 6 | Kaliappanadar K. | IND | 4,713 | 0.90% | |
| 7 | P. Subba Reddiar | IND | 3,459 | 0.70% | |
| 8 | P. Selvaraj | IND | 2,840 | 0.60% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,430, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 498,015 · NOTA n/a · published 509,445 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977
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- 2026-09-12