State board · Lok Sabha

Assam Lok Sabha 1977

Results board · 14 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateAssam

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 14

Electors

72.26L

On the roll

Votes polled

39.65L

54.9% of electors

Median turnout

53.6%

Median of 14 seats

INC lead

Above majority · 10 − 8

[01]Seat matrix

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

Majority · 8 of 14INC 10 · +2 above majority

INC 1071.4% Indian National Congress

BLD 321.4% Bharatiya Lok Dal

IND 17.1% Independents

State level, as published

INC 50.6%10 seats · 71.4%

BLD 35.8%3 seats · 21.4%

CPI(M) 2.9%0 seats

CPI 1.4%0 seats

RCI 1.2%0 seats

Others 8.1%1 seat · 7.1%

Vote share not published

IND1 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 50.6% of votes into 71.4% of seats, a seat premium of 20.8 pp.
10 ÷ 14 = 71.4% · 71.4 − 50.6 = +20.8
BLD polled 35.8% of votes, the 2nd-highest share, but won 3 seats (21.4%).
3 ÷ 14 = 21.4% · 21.4 − 35.8 = −14.4
Dhubri was decided by 590 votes, the closest of 14 seats; Kaliabor had the widest margin, 71,157.
min / max of margin over 14 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 14 · INC 1
Turnout ran from 44.1% in Autonomous District to 67.7% in Dhubri; the median seat polled 53.6%.
min / median / max over 14 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

14 of 14 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 321.4% of seats

50–60 857.1% of seats

60–70 321.4% of seats

70–80 00.0% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestAutonomous District44.1%
HighestDhubri67.7%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

14 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Assam Lok Sabha 1977, all 14 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	KarimganjSC	Nihar Ranjan Laskar	Indian National Congress	2,39,772	30,300	12.6	44.8
02	Silchar	Rashida Haque Choudhury	Indian National Congress	2,55,921	28,553	11.2	54.3
03	Autonomous DistrictST	Biren Singh Engti	Indian National Congress	1,00,430	30,728	30.6	44.1
04	DhubriCLOSEST	Ahmmad Hossen	Indian National Congress	3,40,929	590	0.2	67.7
05	KokrajharST	Charan Narzary	Independent	3,44,818	42,903	12.4	62.7
06	Barpeta	Ismail Hossain Khan	Indian National Congress	3,55,264	48,114	13.5	63.6
07	Gauhati	Renuka Devi Barktaki	Bharatiya Lok Dal	2,91,598	36,440	12.5	52.7
08	Mangaldoi	Hiralal Patowary	Bharatiya Lok Dal	3,03,095	50,002	16.5	54.1
09	Tezpur	Purnanarayan Sinha	Bharatiya Lok Dal	2,67,332	6,148	2.3	58.4
10	Nowgong	Dev Kanta Borooah	Indian National Congress	3,19,288	54,219	17.0	55.3
11	KaliaborWIDEST	Bedabrata Barua	Indian National Congress	2,99,220	71,157	23.8	51.1
12	Jorhat	Tarun Gogoi	Indian National Congress	3,11,008	28,687	9.2	53.1
13	Dibrugarh	Haren Bhumji	Indian National Congress	2,48,898	14,209	5.7	49.5
14	Lakhimpur	Lalit Kumar Doley	Indian National Congress	2,87,875	65,232	22.7	51.8

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 71,157 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1977 · Assam · 14 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