Constituency
214. Coimbatore
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-COIMBATORE
INC 39.1%won by 11.0%CPI 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.1% between them, down from 89.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 25.8% to 75.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,09,869
Turnout
75.8%
Valid votes
3,86,626
Margin
42,561
11.01%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1P. R. RAMAKRISHNANIndian National Congress · INC1,51,01939.1%
- 2PARVATHI KRISHNANCommunist Party of India · CPI1,08,45828.1%
- 3K. SUNDARAMSwatantra Party · SWA74,93219.4%
- 4SOMASUNDARAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK41,72410.8%
- 5V. N. ARUNACHYALAMSOC · SOC7,5161.9%
- 6S. ARUMUGHAMIndependent · IND2,9770.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +17.5%
- INC share
- 41.3% → 39.1%
- CPI share
- 47.8% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- 50.0% → 75.8%