State board · Lok Sabha

Kerala Lok Sabha 1977

Results board · 20 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateKerala

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 20

Electors

1.15Cr

On the roll

Votes polled

90.77L

79.2% of electors

Median turnout

80.1%

Median of 20 seats

INC margin

Exactly at majority · 11 − 11

[01]Seat matrix

20 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 11 of 20INC 11 · at majority

INC 1155.0% Indian National Congress

CPI 420.0% Communist Party of India

KEC 210.0% Kerala Congress

ML 210.0% Muslim Leage

RSP 15.0% Revolutionary Socialist Party

State level, as published

INC 29.1%11 seats · 55.0%

CPI(M) 20.3%0 seats

CPI 10.4%4 seats · 20.0%

BLD 7.2%0 seats

MUL 6.0%Seats unmatched

Others 27.0%Seat count not derivable

Vote share not published

KEC2 seats
ML2 seats
RSP1 seat

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

INC converted 29.1% of votes into 55.0% of seats, a seat premium of 25.9 pp.
11 ÷ 20 = 55.0% · 55.0 − 29.1 = +25.9
CPI(M) polled 20.3% of votes, the 2nd-highest share, but won 0 seats (0.0%).
0 ÷ 20 = 0.0% · 0.0 − 20.3 = −20.3
Mukundapuram was decided by 4,220 votes, the closest of 20 seats; Ponnani had the widest margin, 1,17,546.
min / max of margin over 20 seats with a recorded margin
1 seat was won by a margin under 1%; INC won 1 of them.
count(margin % < 1.0) = 1 of 20 · INC 1
Turnout ran from 72.2% in Trivandrum to 84.0% in Mukundapuram; the median seat polled 80.1%.
min / median / max over 20 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

20 of 20 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 00.0% of seats

50–60 00.0% of seats

60–70 00.0% of seats

70–80 945.0% of seats

≥ 80% 1155.0% of seats

LowestTrivandrum72.2%
HighestMukundapuram84.0%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

20 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Kerala Lok Sabha 1977, all 20 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	Kasaragod	Ramachandran Kadannappally	Indian National Congress	4,62,875	5,042	1.1	80.0
02	Cannanore	C. K. Chandrappan	Communist Party of India	4,57,869	12,877	2.8	82.7
03	Badagara	K. P. Unnikrishnan	Indian National Congress	5,07,090	8,070	1.6	83.0
04	Calicut	V. A. Seyid Muhammad	Indian National Congress	4,57,067	13,704	3.0	81.8
05	Manjeri	Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait	Muslim Leage	4,42,328	97,201	22.0	77.7
06	PonnaniWIDEST	G. M. Banatwala	Muslim Leage	4,31,232	1,17,546	27.3	75.2
07	Palghat	A. Sunnasahib	Indian National Congress	4,39,779	14,871	3.4	74.6
08	Ottapalam	K. Kunhambu	Indian National Congress	4,40,315	35,721	8.1	76.6
09	TrichurSC	K. A. Rajan	Communist Party of India	4,41,732	37,506	8.5	80.4
10	MukundapuramCLOSEST	A. C. George	Indian National Congress	4,72,364	4,220	0.9	84.0
11	Ernakulam	Henry Austin	Indian National Congress	4,67,048	7,285	1.6	80.1
12	Muvattupuzha	George J. Mathew	Kerala Congress	4,60,769	44,820	9.7	82.2
13	Kottayam	Skariah Thomas	Kerala Congress	4,69,180	68,695	14.6	81.5
14	Idukki	C. M. Stephen	Indian National Congress	4,26,869	79,257	18.6	73.8
15	Alleppey	V. M. Sudheeran	Indian National Congress	4,85,659	64,016	13.2	83.7
16	MavelikaraSC	B. K. Nair	Indian National Congress	4,52,188	56,552	12.5	79.5
17	Adoor	P. K. Kodiyan	Communist Party of India	4,29,974	40,567	9.4	81.9
18	Quilon	N. Sreekantan Nair	Revolutionary Socialist Party	4,58,425	1,13,161	24.7	78.7
19	Chirayinkil	Vayalar Ravi	Indian National Congress	4,25,651	60,925	14.3	75.5
20	Trivandrum	M. N. Govindan Nair	Communist Party of India	4,48,586	69,822	15.6	72.2

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 1,17,546 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1977 · Kerala · 20 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database