Wandiwash #9GEN

TAMIL NADU · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Venugopal Gounder

AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Margin

81,132 17.2 pp

votes

over Durai Murugan (DMK)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors6,85,987

Votes polled4,70,355

Turnout68.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.42 L49.8% of electorate

Female electors3.44 L50.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,008females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Venugopal Gounder	AIADM	2,67,930	57.00%
2	Durai Murugan	DMK	1,86,798	39.70%
3	Jagadeva Gounder N.	IND	4,010	0.90%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,617, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 458,738 · NOTA n/a · published 470,355 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977