Constituency
223. Pudukkottai
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-PUDUKKOTTAI
CPI 45.0%won by 10.1%INC 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 10.1%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 20.4% to 45.0% of the vote here (+24.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.9% of the vote between them, up from 70.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 13.7% to 66.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,46,368
Turnout
66.8%
Valid votes
2,98,179
Margin
30,218
10.13%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1R. UMANATHCommunist Party of India · CPI1,34,16245.0%
- 2L. ALAGUSUNDARAM CHETTIARIndian National Congress · INC1,03,94434.9%
- 3A. R. NAGAPPA CHETTIARSwatantra Party · SWA60,07320.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +39.9%
- CPI share
- 20.4% → 45.0%
- INC share
- 50.1% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- 53.1% → 66.8%