Indian Election - Post Emergency

Emergency was declared in India from 1975-77 under the leadership of PM Indira Gandhi (Congress).

Elections took place on 1977 for selecting the 6th Lok Sabha, post emergency.

Election results of 1977:

Total Seats - 542

Break up:

Janata Party - 295

Congress     - 154

Others         -  93

11 Major states constituted 451 seats (83% approx.) voted as below:

State / UT	Janata Party	Congress	Others	Total	Literacy
Uttar Pradesh	60	6	21	87	32.65
Bihar	46	1	5	52	32.32
Maharashtra	16	20	12	48	57.24
West Bengal	16	3	23	42	48.65
Tamil Nadu	4	14	23	41	54.39
Andhra Pradesh	1	40		41	35.66
Madhya Pradesh	36	2	3	41	38.63
Karnataka	3	26		29	46.25
Gujarat	13	11	2	26	44.92
Rajasthan	20	1	4	25	30.11
Kerala		12	7	19	78.85
Grand Total	215	136	100	451

Note: 

Janata Party and Congress includes its allies.

Tamil Nadu others includes AIADMK (17) seats.

Literacy is as per 1981 census.

All sources are from Wikipedia. Links are provided for source data.

Table working was done in a work sheet to arrive at the seats information for 11 states.

Above exercise was conducted to understand the tweet by @rvaidya2000:

Fact file: in77 More educatedSouth voted overwhelmingly forIndira--While the"illiterate"poor peasants of north voted her out-No seat from Patna to Pathankot//our "illiterates"saved freedom//I quote in global forums whn many claim illiteracy& Democracy wont jell:)) RT

Professor R Vaidyanathan your observation was correct.

However the tragedy for India, 6th Lok Sabha survived till 1979 (29 months).

7th Lok Sabha elections took place in 1980.

Total seats    : 531 seats

INC (Indira) : 353 seats

Janata Party :   72 seats (Janata Party and Janata Party - Secular)

Others          :  106 seats

As an Indian, could never understand how such a turnaround took place in a span of 3 years.

Mystery.