Constituency

224. Tiruchengode

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Madras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957

IN-TIRUCHENGODE

INC 57.7%won by 40.3%PSP 17.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 40.3%.

INC vote shareINC went from 45.2% to 57.7% of the vote here (+12.5%).
New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 17.4% — it did not contest here in 1951.
Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
TurnoutTurnout fell 10.4% to 36.8%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

4,09,325

Turnout

36.8%

Valid votes

1,50,612

Margin

60,695

40.30%