Indian general election, 1977 (Tamil Nadu)

Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1977

March 16–20, 1977^[1]

39 seats

	First party	Second party

Leader	M.G. Ramachandran	M. Karunanidhi
Party	AIADMK	DMK
Alliance	INC+	Lok Dal (Janata Secular)
Seats won	34	5
Seat change	+25	-19
Popular vote	10,164,615	6,758,517
Percentage	56.91%	37.84%

1977 Election map (by constituencies)
Green = INC+ and Blue = JP+

The Indian general election, 1977 polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state. The result was a big victory for Indian National Congress under Indira Gandhi and its allies Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Communist Party of India winning 34 seats, while Janata Party and its allies Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Indian National Congress (Organisation) won only 5 seats. The Janata Party ended up winning this election. After the election, the ADK ended up supporting the Janata Party under Morarji Desai. In 1979, ADK continued to support Janata Party, by supporting Charan Singh, which resulted in the appointment of two ADK cabinet members.

Voting and Results

Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left

Results by Pre-poll Alliance

INC+	SEATS	JP	SEATS	OTHERS	SEATS
ADK	17	NCO	3	IND	0
INC	14	DMK	2
CPI	3
TOTAL (1977)	34	TOTAL (1977)	5	TOTAL (1977)	0
TOTAL (1971)	9	TOTAL (1971)	24	TOTAL (1971)	6

Results by Post-poll Alliance

JP+	SEATS	INC(I)	SEATS	OTHERS	SEATS
ADK	17	INC	14	DMK	2
NCO	3	CPI	3
TOTAL	20	TOTAL	17	TOTAL	2

List of Elected MPs

Constituency	Winner	Party	Margin	Runner-up^a	Party^a
Madras North	A. V. P. Asaithambi	DMK	45,103	K. Manoharan	ADMK
Madras Central	P. Ramachandran	NCO	73,411	K. Raja Mohammad	ADMK
Madras South	R. Venkataraman	INC	14,829	Murasoli Maran	DMK
Sriperumbudur	S. Jaganathan	ADMK	45,932	T. P. Elumalai	NCO
Chengalpattu	R. Mohanarangam	ADMK	35,639	Era. Sezhiyan	DMK
Arakkonam	O. V. Alagesa Mudaliar	INC	57,864	N. Veeraswamy	DMK
Vellore	V. Dhandayuthapani	NCO	3,161	Abdul Samad	IND
Tiruppattur	C. N. Viswanathan	ADMK	98,666	C. K. Chinnaraj Gounder	DMK
Vandavasi	Venugopal Gounder	ADMK	81,132	Durai Murugan	DMK
Tindivanam	M. R. Lakshmi Narayanan	INC	49,485	V. Krishnamoorthy	DMK
Cuddalore	G. Bhuvarahan	INC	89,057	S. Radhakrishnan	NCO
Chidambaram	A. Murugesan	ADMK	109,234	N. Rajangam	DMK
Dharmapuri	K. Ramamurthy	INC	105,686	P. Ponnuswamy	NCO
Krishnagiri	P. V. Periasamy	ADMK	119,228	M. Kamalanathan	DMK
Rasipuram	B. Devarajan	INC	133,438	Jothi Venkatachalam	NCO
Salem	P. Kannan	ADMK	79,604	K. Rajaram	DMK
Tiruchengode	R. Kolanthaivelu	ADMK	128,180	M. Muthusamy	DMK
Nilgiris	P. S. Ramalingam	ADMK	59,346	M. K. Nanja Gowder	NCO
Gobichettipalayam	K. S. Ramaswamy	INC	105,458	N. K. Karuppuswamy	NCO
Coimbatore	Parvathi Krishnan	CPI	21,178	S. V. Lakshmanan	NCO
Pollachi	K. A. Raju	ADMK	124,194	C. T. Dhandapani	DMK
Palani	C. Subramaniam	INC	221,768	K. N. Saminathan	DMK
Dindigul	K. Maya Thevar	ADMK	169,224	A. Balasubramaniam	CPM
Madurai	R. V. Swaminathan	INC	134,345	P. Ramamurthi	CPM
Periyakulam	S. Ramasamy	ADMK	204,392	Palanivel Rajan	DMK
Karur	K. Gopal	INC	145,520	M. Meenakshi Sundaram	NCO
Tiruchirappalli	M. Kalyanasundaram	CPI	76,045	Y. Venkateswara Dikshidar	NCO
Perambalur	A. Asokaraj	ADMK	180,027	J. S. Raju	DMK
Mayiladuthurai	N. Kudanthai Ramalingam	INC	74,265	S. Govindasamy	NCO
Nagapattinam	S. G. Murugaiyan	CPI	40,810	M. Thazhai Karunanithi	DMK
Thanjavur	S. D. Somasundaram	ADMK	97,743	L. Ganesan	DMK
Pudukkottai	V. S. Elanchezhiyan	ADMK	223,615	V. Vairava Thevar	NCO
Sivaganga	P. Thiagarajan	ADMK	211,533	R. Ramanathan Chettiar	NCO
Ramanathapuram	P. Anbalagan	ADMK	175,130	M. S. K. Sathiyendran	DMK
Sivakasi	V. Jeyalakshmi	INC	114,848	G. Ramanujuam	NCO
Tirunelveli	V. Arunachalam	ADMK	182,693	Samsuddin alias K. M. Kathiravan	DMK
Tenkasi	M. Arunachalam	INC	186,878	S. Rajagopalan	NCO
Tiruchendur	K. T. Kosalram	INC	120,190	Edwin Devadasan	NCO
Nagercoil	Kumari Ananthan	NCO	74,236	M. Moses	INC

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Tamil Nadu

While there were no members from Tamil Nadu in Morarji Desai's Administration, Charan Singh appointed two AIADMK members to his cabinet, making it the first time a non-Congress Dravidian Party member making it to the council of ministers at the national level.

Cabinet Ministers (Charan Singh Administration)

Minister	Party	Lok Sabha Constituency/Rajya Sabha	Portfolios
Aravinda Bala Pajanor	AIADMK	Pondicherry
Satyavani Muthu	AIADMK	Rajya Sabha

References

Bibliography

Volume I, 1977 Indian general election, 6th Lok Sabha

External links

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