Constituency
225. Tiruchirappalli
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-TIRUCHIRAPPALLI
INC 42.6%won by 19.1%CPI 23.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.8% to 42.6% of the vote here (+6.8%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 23.5% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.1% between them, down from 79.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.1% to 51.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,17,789
Turnout
51.6%
Valid votes
2,15,752
Margin
41,125
19.06%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1M. K. M. ABDUL SALAMIndian National Congress · INC91,91042.6%
- 2K. ANANDA NAMBIARCommunist Party of India · CPI50,78523.5%
- 3M. S. MANIIndependent · IND42,16119.5%
- 4C. M. SRINIVASANIndependent · IND13,8046.4%
- 5N. RUKMANIIndependent · IND10,7655.0%
- 6RENGASAMIIndependent · IND6,3272.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −16.8%
- INC share
- 35.8% → 42.6%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 23.5%
- Turnout
- 60.8% → 51.6%