Constituency
206. Tiruppattur
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-TIRUPPATTUR
DMK 51.6%won by 11.4%INC 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 11.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 51.6% of the vote here (+51.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.8% of the vote between them, up from 71.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 26.6% to 65.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,53,447
Turnout
65.0%
Valid votes
2,94,524
Margin
33,635
11.42%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1R. MUTHU GOUNDERDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,51,93851.6%
- 2DURAISWAMI GOUNDANIndian National Congress · INC1,18,30340.2%
- 3SIVA PRAKASAMWT · WT11,3723.9%
- 4ABDUL KAREEMIndependent · IND8,4572.9%
- 5V. M. CHINNASWAMIIndependent · IND4,4541.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +56.0%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 51.6%
- INC share
- 44.6% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- 38.4% → 65.0%