1977 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu

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.

Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1977

16–20 March 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+

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
AIADMK 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
AIADMK 17 INC 14 DMK 2
NCO 3 CPI 3
TOTAL 20 TOTAL 17 TOTAL 2

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 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)

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

See also

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