Tirunelveli #36GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Arunachalam V.

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Margin

1,82,693 41.1 pp

votes

over Samsuddin Alias Kathiravan K.M. (DMK)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors6,72,649

Votes polled4,44,250

Turnout66.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.29 L48.9% of electorate

Female electors3.43 L51.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,043females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Arunachalam V.	AIADM	3,04,562	68.60%
2	Samsuddin Alias Kathiravan K.M.	DMK	1,21,869	27.40%
3	Ganapathy K.P.	IND	4,414	1.00%
4	Thanu Pillai P.T.	IND	2,485	0.60%
5	Moses Kangasabai S.	IND	1,458	0.30%
6	Muruganantham S.A.	IND	1,435	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 8,027, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 436,223 · NOTA n/a · published 444,250 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977