INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
It won 154 of 542 seats after standing in 492. Out of every 100 votes, 35 went to it.
The numbers
INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · Lok Sabha 1977
By state
bars: vote share · right: seats
About this data
Source: Election Commission of India, statistical reports for the 1977 Lok Sabha election (detailed results, list of winners, list of parties). Vote shares are of valid votes, excluding NOTA, as ECI reports them. Turnout here is votes counted (including NOTA) divided by electors, so it runs slightly below ECI's official figure, which also counts rejected votes.
The Janata Party's candidates stood on the Bharatiya Lok Dal symbol and are listed as BLD in ECI's report.
Constituencies of today's Telangana (16), Jharkhand (14), Chhattisgarh (11), Uttarakhand (5) are placed there by name; at the time they were part of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and a few boundaries straddled the present state lines.
2 seats were won unopposed, so no poll was held there.
Map boundaries are approximate and for illustration.