Constituency
226. Nagapattinam
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-NAGAPATTINAM
INC 46.0%won by 9.2%CPI 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.8% to 9.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.7% of the vote between them, up from 50.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 31.2% to 78.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,48,355
Turnout
78.3%
Valid votes
3,51,089
Margin
32,417
9.23%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1GOPALSAMY THENKONDARIndian National Congress · INC1,61,42146.0%
- 2C. KANDASAMY THEVARCommunist Party of India · CPI1,29,00436.7%
- 3A. M. MYTHEEN SAYABUML · ML56,41216.1%
- 4MOHAMED CASSIM ROWTHERIndependent · IND4,2521.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −1.5%
- INC share
- 26.9% → 46.0%
- CPI share
- 16.2% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- 109.5% → 78.3%