Vellore #7GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Dhandayuthapani V.

INCO Indian National Congress (ORGANISATION)

Margin

3,161 0.7 pp

votes

over Abdul Samad (IND)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors6,59,939

Votes polled4,59,693

Turnout69.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.3 L49.9% of electorate

Female electors3.3 L50.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,002females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Dhandayuthapani V.	INCO	2,20,994	48.10%
2	Abdul Samad	IND	2,17,833	47.40%
3	Seshan S.I.	IND	6,464	1.40%
4	Damodaram V.K.	IND	3,713	0.80%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,689, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 449,004 · NOTA n/a · published 459,693 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977