Constituency
214. Pudukkottai
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-PUDUKKOTTAI
INC 50.1%won by 29.4%PSP 20.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: KMPP (KMPP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 29.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 46.6% to 50.1% of the vote here (+3.6%).
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 20.8% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.9% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,19,435
Turnout
53.1%
Valid votes
2,22,751
Margin
65,452
29.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1F. RAMANATHAN CHATTIARIndian National Congress · INC1,11,69450.1%
- 2K. M. VALLATHARASPraja Socialist Party · PSP46,24220.8%
- 3V. NAGU SERVAICommunist Party of India · CPI45,38320.4%
- 4S. SOUNDARARAJANIndependent · IND19,4328.7%
- 5S.S. MARISAMIIndependent · IND00.0%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- KMPP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- −17.2%
- INC share
- 46.6% → 50.1%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 20.8%
- Turnout
- 51.2% → 53.1%