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DELHI · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

BLD Bharatiya Lok Dal

Margin

77,186 43.3 pp

votes

over Shashi Bhushan (INC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors2,70,702

Votes polled1,78,112

Turnout65.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors1.56 L57.6% of electorate

Female electors1.15 L42.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 736females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	BLD	1,25,936	70.70%
2	Shashi Bhushan	INC	48,750	27.40%
3	Urmila	IND	628	0.40%
4	Maharaj Kumar	IND	580	0.30%
5	Laxmi Kant Jha	IND	529	0.30%
6	Virendra Kumar	IND	321	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 1,368, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 176,744 · NOTA n/a · published 178,112 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977