Constituency
194. Madras North
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-MADRAS-NORTH
INC 37.7%won by 2.7%ML 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 43.1% to 37.7% of the vote here (−5.4%).
- New challengerML (ML) finished second with 34.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.6% between them, down from 91.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 32.3% to 71.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,52,645
Turnout
71.6%
Valid votes
3,24,285
Margin
8,849
2.73%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1P. SRINIVASANIndian National Congress · INC1,22,16037.7%
- 2ABDUS SAMADML · ML1,13,31134.9%
- 3S. C. C. ANTHONY PILLAISL · SL80,22724.7%
- 4RAJAMANNARIndependent · IND5,5081.7%
- 5R. RAMANATHANIndependent · IND3,0790.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–ML swing
- −40.3%
- INC share
- 43.1% → 37.7%
- ML share
- 0.0% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- 39.3% → 71.6%