Constituency
206. Madurai
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-MADURAI
CPI 35.0%won by 0.5%INC 34.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 0.5%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 13.1% to 35.0% of the vote here (+21.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 69.6% of the vote between them, up from 52.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 47.7% to 49.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,60,493
Turnout
49.2%
Valid votes
2,26,674
Margin
1,088
0.48%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1K. T. K. THANGAMANICommunist Party of India · CPI79,37435.0%
- 2T. K. RAMAIndian National Congress · INC78,28634.5%
- 3SASIVARNA THEVARIndependent · IND64,76528.6%
- 4VENKATARAMA IYERIndependent · IND4,2491.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +14.1%
- CPI share
- 13.1% → 35.0%
- INC share
- 26.7% → 34.5%
- Turnout
- 96.9% → 49.2%