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The '''1977 Indian general election''' was held to constitute the [[6th Lok Sabha]]. Polling was held between 16 and 20 March 1977. It was held during [[The Emergency (India)|the Emergency period]], which ceased on 21 March 1977, right before the final results were announced.<ref>{{Cite web|title=India 1977|url=http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/INDIA_1977_E.PDF}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web|title=India 1977|url=https://hindi.eci.gov.in/files/file/4116-general-election-1977-vol-i-ii/}}</ref>

The election resulted in a heavy defeat for the [[Indian National Congress|Indian National Congress (INC)]] government, with the incumbent [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] and INC party leader [[Indira Gandhi]] losing her [[Lok Sabha]] seat from [[Rae Bareli (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rae Bareli]]. The call for the restoration of democracy by revoking the Emergency is considered to be a major reason for the sweeping victory for the opposition [[Janata Party|Janata alliance]],<ref>M.R. Masani, "India's Second Revolution," ''Asian Affairs'' (1977) 5#1 pp 19–38.</ref> whose leader [[Morarji Desai]] was sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister of India on 24 March 1977.

In Gujarat, Janata Party/ BLD won 16 seats while INC won 10 seats out of a total of 26 seats. The number of seats increased to 26 from 24 from the previous election.

== Party-wise results summary==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!colspan=2|Party
!Seats won
|-
|
|JANATA PARTY/ BLD
|16
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|10
|-
|}

== Results- Constituency wise ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!No
!Constituency
!Winner
!Party
|-
!1
|[[Kachchh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kachchh]]
|DAVE ANANTRAY DEVSHANKAR
| BLD
|-
!2
|[[Surendranagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Surendranagar]]
|AMIN RAMDAS KISHORDAS ( R. K. AMIN )
| BLD
|-
!3
|[[Jamnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jamnagar]]
|VINODBHAI B. SHETH
|BLD
|-
!4
|[[Rajkot (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rajkot]]
|PATEL KESHUBHAI SAVDASBHAI
| BLD
|-
!5
|Porbandar
|PATEL DHARMASINHBHAI DAHYABHAI
|BLD
|-
!6
|[[Junagadh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Junagadh]]
|NATHWANI NARENDRA PRAGJI
| BLD
|-
!7
|[[Amreli (Lok Sabha constituency)|Amreli]]
|DWARKADAS MOHANLAL PATEL
| BLD
|-
!8
|[[Bhavnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bhavnagar]]
|PRASANNAVADAN MANILAL METHTA
| BLD
|-
!9
|Dhandhuka (SC)
|PARMAR NATAVARLAL BHAGAVANDAS
|BLD
|-
!10
|AHMEDABAD
|AHESAN JAFRI
| |INC
|-
!11
|Gandhinagar
|PURUSHOTTAM GANESH MAVALANKAR
|BLD
|-
!12
|[[Mahesana (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mahesana]]
|PATEL MANIBEN VALLABHBHAI
| |BLD
|-
!13
|[[Patan (Lok Sabha constituency)|Patan]] (SC)
|CHAVDA KHEMCHANDBHAI SOMABHAI
| |BLD
|-
!14
|BANASKANTHA
|CHAUDHARY MOTIBHAI RANCHHODBHAI
| BLD
|-
!15
|SABARKANTHA
|H. M. PATEL
| |BLD
|-
!16
|Kapadvanj
|VAGHELA SHANKARJI LAXMANJI
|BLD
|-
!17
|DOHAD (ST)
|DAMOR SOMJIBHAI PUJABHAI
| |INC
|-
!18
|Godhra
|DESAI HITENDRABHAI KANAIYALAL
| |INC
|-
!19
|KAIRA
|DESAI DHARMSINGH DADUBHAI
| |INC
|-
!20
|[[Anand (Lok Sabha constituency)|Anand]]
|AJITSINH FULSINH DABHI
| |INC
|-
!21
|Chota Udaipur (ST)
|RATHAWA AMARSINH VIRIYABHAI
| |INC
|-
!22
|BARODA
|GAEKWAD FATESINHRAO PRATAPSINHRAO
| |INC
|-
!23
|BROACH
|PATEL AHMEDBHAI MOHMADBHAI
| |INC
|-
!24
|[[Surat (Lok Sabha constituency)|Surat]]
|DESAI MORARJI RANCHHODJI
| |BLD
|-
!25
|MANDAVI (ST)
|GAMIT CHHITUBHAI DEVJIBHAI
| |INC
|-
!26
|BULSAR (ST)
|PATEL NANUBHAI NICHHABHAI
| |BLD
|}

==References==
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{{Gujarat elections}}

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