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Congress-AIADMK alliance wins 34 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu

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In the post-Emergency Lok Sabha election, the Congress-AIADMK-CPI alliance won 34 of Tamil Nadu's 39 seats even as the Janata Party took power nationally.

The 1977 Lok Sabha election in Tamil Nadu was held for 39 seats shortly after the end of the Emergency. The alliance of the Indian National Congress, the AIADMK and the Communist Party of India won 34 seats, while the Janata Party and its allies, the DMK and the Congress (Organisation), won only 5. The result in Tamil Nadu ran against the national trend, in which the Janata Party formed the government. After the election the AIADMK supported the Janata Party government of Morarji Desai, and in 1979 two AIADMK members joined the Union cabinet under Charan Singh.

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