Constituency
222. Perambalur
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-PERAMBALUR
DMK 55.9%won by 16.4%INC 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 16.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 55.9% of the vote here (+55.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.4% of the vote between them, up from 69.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 19.3% to 71.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,73,412
Turnout
71.4%
Valid votes
3,38,001
Margin
55,390
16.39%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1ERA SEZHIYANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,88,92655.9%
- 2M. PALANIYANDIIndian National Congress · INC1,33,53639.5%
- 3R. DANARAJAUIndependent · IND15,5394.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +65.1%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 55.9%
- INC share
- 48.7% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- 52.1% → 71.4%