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Madras · PC 2 · 1967 by-election
Madras SouthLok Sabha by-election result, 1967
M.Maran (DMK) won Madras South in the 1967 Lok Sabha by-election with 63.2% of the vote, beating Ramaswamy C.R (INC) by 1,05,708 votes.
Winner — 1967 by-election
M.MARAN
DMK 63.2%INC 35.5%5 others 1.3%
Votes
2,41,304
63.2% share
Winning margin
1,05,708
27.7% of votes
Total votes cast
3,81,779
Candidates
7
Seat history
All Candidates
7 candidates| # | Candidate | Party | Votes · %Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M.MARAN | 2,41,30463.2% | |
| 2 | RAMASWAMY C.R | 1,35,59635.5% | |
| 3 | R.NAYAGAR.G IND | IND | 1,6230.4% |
| 4 | A.K.SAHIB IND | IND | 1,3440.3% |
| 5 | SRINIVASAN C.M IND | IND | 1,1000.3% |
| 6 | A.CHETTIAR.T.V IND | IND | 5740.1% |
| 7 | VAINDYANATHAN,K.V IND | IND | 2380.1% |
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.
A comfortable margin, an essentially two-way race.
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How safe is this seat?
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27.7%
winning margin, share of votes
How many parties were really in the race?
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Essentially two
DMK and INC took 99% of the votes.
Effective number of parties: 1.90 — counts each party by its share of the vote.
How often does it back the winner?
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…How did the vote split?
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63.2%won by DMK
DMK 63.2%INC 35.5%Others 1.3%
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.