Tiruchendur #38GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Kosalaram K.T.

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

1,20,190 26.6 pp

votes

over Devadasan Edwin (INCO)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors7,12,718

Votes polled4,52,540

Turnout63.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.44 L48.2% of electorate

Female electors3.69 L51.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,075females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Kosalaram K.T.	INC	2,72,338	60.20%
2	Devadasan Edwin	INCO	1,52,148	33.60%
3	Arumugam Pandian N.	IND	11,336	2.50%
4	Antony Edward	IND	5,656	1.20%
5	S. Sooryamuththu Thevar	IND	2,088	0.50%
6	S. Subbiah Nadar	IND	1,559	0.30%
7	Raj S.A.	IND	728	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,687, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 445,853 · NOTA n/a · published 452,540 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977