The 1977 Indian general election 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 All India 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 AIADMK ended up supporting the Janata Party under Morarji Desai. In 1979, AIADMK continued to support Janata Party, by supporting Charan Singh, which resulted in the appointment of two AIADMK cabinet members.
Seat Allotment
Congress Front
Janata Alliance
Voting and results Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left Alliance Party Popular Vote Percentage Swing Seats won Seat Change AIADMK+ All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 5,365,076 30.04% new party 17 new party Indian National Congress 3,977,306 22.27% 9.76% 14 5 Communist Party of India 822,233 4.60% 0.83% 3 1 Total 10,164,615 56.91% 38.97% 34 21 DMK+ Indian National Congress (Organisation) 3,156,116 17.67% 12.76% 3 2 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 3,323,320 18.61% 16.64% 2 21 Total 6,479,436 36.28% 29.40% 5 19 Communist Party of India (Marxist) 279,081 1.56% 0.08% 0 Republican Party of India 3,809 0.02% 0 Independents 932,966 5.22% 3.06% 0 Total 17,859,907 100.00% 39 Valid Votes 17,859,907 97.85% Invalid Votes 392,275 2.15% Total Votes 18,252,182 100.00% Reigstered Voters/Turnout 27,187,417 67.13% 4.69%
List of Elected MPs Constituency Winner Party Margin Runner-upa Partya Madras North A. V. P. Asaithambi DMK 45,103 K. Manoharan AIADMK Madras Central P. Ramachandran NCO 73,411 K. Raja Mohammad AIADMK Madras South R. Venkataraman INC 14,829 Murasoli Maran DMK Sriperumbudur S. Jaganathan AIADMK 45,932 T. P. Elumalai NCO Chengalpattu R. Mohanarangam AIADMK 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 Janata party 98,666 C. K. Chinnaraj Gounder AIADMK Vandavasi Venugopal Gounder AIADMK 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 AIADMK 109,234 N. Rajangam DMK Dharmapuri Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy INC 105,686 P. Ponnuswamy NCO Krishnagiri P. V. Periasamy AIADMK 119,228 M. Kamalanathan DMK Rasipuram B. Devarajan INC 133,438 Jothi Venkatachalam NCO Salem P. Kannan AIADMK 79,604 K. Rajaram DMK Tiruchengode R. Kolanthaivelu AIADMK 128,180 M. Muthusamy DMK Nilgiris P. S. Ramalingam AIADMK 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 AIADMK 124,194 C. T. Dhandapani DMK Palani C. Subramaniam INC 221,768 K. N. Saminathan DMK Dindigul K. Maya Thevar AIADMK 169,224 A. Balasubramaniam CPM Madurai R. V. Swaminathan INC 134,345 P. Ramamurthi CPM Periyakulam S. Ramasamy AIADMK 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 AIADMK 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 AIADMK 97,743 L. Ganesan DMK Pudukkottai V. S. Elanchezhiyan AIADMK 223,615 V. Vairava Thevar NCO Sivaganga P. Thiagarajan AIADMK 211,533 R. Ramanathan Chettiar NCO Ramanathapuram P. Anbalagan AIADMK 175,130 M. S. K. Sathiyendran DMK Sivakasi V. Jeyalakshmi INC 114,848 G. Ramanujuam NCO Tirunelveli V. Arunachalam AIADMK 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)
See also
References ^ "India - Date of Elections: March 16 to 20, 1977" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 April 2022.
Bibliography Volume I, 1977 Indian general election, 6th Lok Sabha
External links Website of Election Commission of India CNN-IBN Lok Sabha Election History