Tenkasi #37SC

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Arunachalam M.

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

1,86,876 41.4 pp

votes

over Rajagopalan S. (INCO)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors6,73,825

Votes polled4,51,061

Turnout66.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.29 L48.8% of electorate

Female electors3.45 L51.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,048females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Arunachalam M.	INC	3,05,069	67.60%
2	Rajagopalan S.	INCO	1,18,193	26.20%
3	Maruthan K.	IND	13,124	2.90%
4	Shenthivelu K.	IND	4,269	0.90%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,406, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 440,655 · NOTA n/a · published 451,061 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977