Constituency
234. Nagercoil
Community mirrorMadras · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-NAGERCOIL
INC 56.4%won by 27.1%IND 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 51.6% to 27.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.6% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 15.0% to 64.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,30,947
Turnout
64.7%
Valid votes
2,78,896
Margin
75,621
27.11%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1A. NESAMONYIndian National Congress · INC1,57,20856.4%
- 2P. VIVEKANANDAIndependent · IND81,58729.3%
- 3A. ZACHARIAHIndependent · IND20,4037.3%
- 4P. JOHN RUSSELIndependent · IND19,6987.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −24.4%
- INC share
- 75.8% → 56.4%
- IND share
- 24.2% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- 49.7% → 64.7%