Indian general election, 1951 (Madras)

Indian general election in Madras, 1951

November 1951

75 seats

	First party	Second party

Leader	Jawaharlal Nehru	Shripat Amrit Dange
Party	INC	CPI
Seats won	35	8

Tamil Nadu

The Indian general election, 1951 was the first democratic national election held in India after Independence, and the polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 62 seats. This state had the second largest number of seats, after Uttar Pradesh, because part of current Andhra Pradesh was part of the state of Madras. The result was a victory for Indian National Congress winning 35 out of the 75 seats. While the remaining seats were won by left and independent parties, opposed to Congress.

Voting and Results

Results by Alliance

INC	SEATS	CPI	SEATS	OTHERS	SEATS
INC	35	CPI	8	IND	15
				KMPP	5
				Others	12
TOTAL (1951)	29	TOTAL (1951)	8	TOTAL (1951)	75

Independent parties are local state parties, that are unrecognized nationally

List of Elected MPs

Constituency	Winner	Party	Runner-up^a	Party^a
Madras	T. T. Krishnamachari	INC	Balasubramanya MDR	JUSP
Thiruvallur	Maragatham Chandrasekhar P. Natesan	INC	Guruswami Sarojini Rajah	IND KMPP
Chengalpattu	O. V. Alagesan	INC	A. R. L. Pathy	KMPP
Kancheepuram	A. Krishnaswami	CWL	T. Chengalvarayan	INC
Vellore	M. Muthukrishnan Ramachandar	INC CWL	N. S. Varadachari Muhammad Anwar	INC IND
Vandavasi	Munusami	CWL	Ramachandra Reddy	INC
Krishnagiri	C. R. Narasimhan	INC	C. Doraisami Gounder	IND
Dharmapuri	N. Satyanathan	IND	K. Subramanian	INC
Salem	S. V. Ramaswami	INC	S. Duraikannu Pillai	IND
Erode	Balakrishnan Periasami Gounder	INC INC	Kesavlal Jalidas Jait Pasupathi	IND SP
Tiruchengode	S. K. Baby	IND	P. Subbarayan	INC
Tiruppur	T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar	INC	Venkatachalam	IND
Pollachi	Damodaran	INC	Krishnabai Nimbkar Vasudev	SP
Pudukkottai	K. M. Vallatharasu	KMPP	V. Ramaiah Servai	INC
Perambalur	V. Boorarangaswami Padayachi	TNT	R. Krishnaswami Reddiar	INC
Tiruchirappalli	E. Mathuram	IND	N. Halasyam	INC
Thanjavur	R. Venkataraman	INC	R. Srinivasa Sharma	IND
Kumbakonam	C. Ramaswamy Mudaliar	INC	Ramaiah	IND
Mayuram	K. Ananda Nambiar K. Santhanam	CPI INC	V. Veeraswami R.Subramaniam	INC CPI
Cuddalore	Govindasamy Kachirayar Kanakasabai	TNT INC	L. Elayaperumal N. Rajangan	INC TNT
Tindivanam	A. Jayaraman & V. Munuswamy	TNT	V. I. Munuswamy Pillai& Ramnath Goenka	INC
Tirunelveli	P. T. Thanu Pillai	INC	Adhimoolam Nadar	IND
Srivaikuntam	A. V. Thomas	INC	M. M. Subramanian	SP
Sankaranainarkoil	M. Sankarapandian	INC	Ahmad Ibrahim	IND
Aruppukottai	U. Muthuramalinga Thevar	FBL (MG)	M. Gulam Mohideen	INC
Ramanathapuram	V. VR. N. AR. Nagappa Chettiar	INC	T. Sundaram	KMPP
Srivilliputhur	K. Kamaraj Nadar	INC	G. D. Naidu	IND
Madurai	S. Balasubramaniam Kodimangalam P. M. Kakkan	INC INC	Thangamani Nadar S. A. Rahim	CPI SP
Periyakulam	A. Sakthivadivel Gounder	INC	C. Raghupathi Thevar	FBL (MG)
Dindigul	Ammu Swaminathan	INC	Krishnaswami	CPI
Nagercoil	A. Nesamony	TTC	Sivathanu Pillai	IND

Bibliography

Volume I, 1951 Indian general election, 1st Lok Sabha

External links

Elections in Tamil Nadu

Council elections	1920 1923 1926 1930 1934 1937 1946

Assembly elections	1937 1946 1952 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 2001 2006 2011 2016

Assembly by-elections	1952–95 1997–98 1999–2000 2002 2006–07 2009–2010

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