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Madras · PC 8 · 1962

Tiruvannamalai

Winner — Lok Sabha 1962

DHARMALINGAM
DMK
DMK 47.1%INC 45.9%1 others 7.0%
Votes
1,41,254
49.0% share
Winning margin
3,726
1.3% of votes
Total votes cast
2,99,735
Candidates
3
Seat history
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All Candidates

3 total
#CandidatePartyVotesShare
1
DHARMALINGAM
DMK
1,41,25449.0%
2
G. NEELAKANTAN
INC
1,37,52847.7%
3
ARJUNA GOUNDER
IND
9,5743.3%

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.

The RecordThe PlaceThe State

A two-to-three-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
marginal
1.3%
— NOT REPORTED
mean 6.5% · min 0.3% · max 20.9%

How contested is turnout?

SEAT
77%
lowerhigher

How crowded is the field?

SEAT
2.32
fewer partiesmore parties

How much NOTA?

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— NOT REPORTED

How often does it back the winner?

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neveralways

matches the ruling party

How did the vote split?

SEAT
2.32EFFECTIVE PARTIES
DMK 49.0%INC 47.7%OTH 3.3%

Who ran, on record?

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— 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.

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