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Madras · PC 26 · 1957

Tenkasi

Winner — Lok Sabha 1957

M. SANKARAPANDIAN
INC 51.0%CPI 49.0%
Votes
1,25,821
51.0% share
Winning margin
4,800
1.9% of votes
Total votes cast
2,46,842
Candidates
2
Seat history

All Candidates

2 total
#CandidatePartyVotesShare
1
M. SANKARAPANDIAN
1,25,82151.0%
2
N. SHANMUGAM
1,21,02149.0%

Affidavit details — declared assets, criminal cases and education — aren't available for this seat yet. The results above are complete; only the candidate-affidavit layer is missing.

An essentially two-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
marginal
1.9%
NOT REPORTED
mean 6.0% · min 0.6% · max 16.7%

How contested is turnout?

SEAT
77%
lowerhigher

How crowded is the field?

SEAT
2.00
fewer partiesmore parties

How much NOTA?

SEAT
NOT REPORTED

How often does it back the winner?

SEAT
neveralways

matches the ruling party

How did the vote split?

SEAT
2.00EFFECTIVE PARTIES
INC 51.0%CPI 49.0%

Who ran, on record?

SEAT
NOT YET COMPUTED

Historical constituency — last contested in 1967. Redrawn or abolished in a later delimitation, so it has no present-day district or state context; its full territorial history is above and in the Seat-history drawer.