Constituency
202. Tindivanam
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-TINDIVANAM
INC 48.3%won by 5.2%SWA 43.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.6% to 48.3% of the vote here (+16.8%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 43.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.5% of the vote between them, up from 68.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 13.5% to 62.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,41,497
Turnout
62.0%
Valid votes
2,73,719
Margin
14,297
5.22%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1R. VENKATASUBBA REDDIARIndian National Congress · INC1,32,33048.3%
- 2K. RAMAMOORTHI GOUNDARSwatantra Party · SWA1,18,03343.1%
- 3N. P. SHANUMGA GOUNDARIndependent · IND23,3568.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SWA swing
- −26.4%
- INC share
- 31.6% → 48.3%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 43.1%
- Turnout
- 48.5% → 62.0%