1957 Indian general election in Madras State
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The 1957 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 34 seats in the state. The result was a victory for Indian National Congress winning 24 out of 34 seats. The major opposition for INC, the CPI, managed to only win 2 seats. This election also saw the entry of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in their first national election, who ended up winning 2 seats. Due to the nonrecognition of state parties such as the DMK, they were grouped under independent parties, which won a total of 8 seats.
Registered17,514,993
Turnout8,363,410 (47.75%) 
5.23%
5.23% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 March 1957
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41 (of 494) seats in the Lok Sabha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 17,514,993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 8,363,410 (47.75%) 5.23% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Voting and results
| Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
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| Indian National Congress | 5,094,552 | 46.52 |  4.55% | 31 | 5 | |
| Communist Party of India | 1,101,338 | 10.06 | 5.09% | 2 | 1 | |
| Praja Socialist Party | 399,789 | 3.65 | new party | 0 | new party | |
| Independents | 4,355,162 | 39.77 | 14.82% | 8 | 5 | |
| Total | 10,950,841 | 100.00 | – | 41 | 3 | |
| Valid votes | 8,162,313 | 97.60 | ||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 201,097 | 2.40 | ||||
| Total votes | 8,363,410 | 100.00 | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 17,514,993 | 47.75 | ||||
- Changes in seats and votes are calculated based on the seats and votes won and polled in Tamil-speaking areas of Madras (only) during general elections held in 1951
- Independent parties are local state parties (like DMK), that are unrecognised nationally
List of Elected MPs
| Constituency | NoS | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | ||||||||||
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| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||
| 1 | Madras North | 1 | S. C. C. Anthony Pillai | IND | 86,139 | 48.71 | T. Chengalvarayan | INC | 76,141 | 43.06 | 9,998 | 5.65 | ||
| 2 | Madras South | 1 | T. T. Krishnamachari | INC | 81,390 | 45.93 | P. Balasubramania Mudaliar | IND | 71,284 | 40.23 | 10,106 | 5.70 | ||
| 3 | Chingleput | 2 | Dr. A. Krishnaswamy | IND | 1,88,481 | 26.81 | O. V. Alagesa Mudaliar | INC | 1,86,753 | 26.57 | N/A | |||
| 4 | Tiruvallur | 1 | R. Govindarajulu Naidu | INC | 1,20,363 | 64.90 | A. Raghava Reddy | IND | 65,083 | 35.10 | 55,280 | 29.80 | ||
| 5 | Vellore | 2 | N. R. Munisamy | INC | 1,44,377 | 19.24 | M. Muthukrishnan | INC | 1,26,132 | 16.81 | N/A | |||
| 6 | Thiruvannamalai | 1 | Dharmalingam | IND | 84,309 | 41.75 | G. Neelakantan | INC | 74,070 | 36.68 | 10,239 | 5.07 | ||
| 7 | Tiruppattur | 1 | A. Duraisami Gounder | INC | 71,564 | 44.55 | C. P. Chinnaraj | IND | 42,875 | 26.69 | 28,689 | 17.86 | ||
| 8 | Krishnagiri | 1 | C. R. Narasimhan | INC | 57,683 | 40.00 | G. D. Naidu | IND | 57,316 | 39.75 | 367 | 0.25 | ||
| 9 | Tiruchengode | 1 | Dr. P. Subbarayan | INC | 86,935 | 57.72 | Palaniappa Bakthar | PSP | 26,240 | 17.42 | 60,695 | 40.30 | ||
| 10 | Salem | 1 | S. V. Ramasami | INC | 85,342 | 47.18 | S. K. Babie Kandasami | IND | 30,764 | 17.01 | 54,578 | 30.17 | ||
| 21 | Ramanathapuram | 1 | P. Subbiah Ambalam | INC | 89,701 | 37.61 | R. K. Ramakrishnan | IND | 50,668 | 21.24 | 39,033 | 16.37 | ||
| 22 | Srivilliputhur | 2 | U. Muthuramalinga Thevar | IND | 2,06,999 | 24.17 | S. S. Natarajan | INC | 1,67,676 | 19.58 | N/A | |||
| 23 | Nagercoil | 1 | Thanulingom Nadar | INC | 1,43,288 | 75.78 | Chellaswamy | IND | 45,798 | 24.22 | 97,490 | 51.56 | ||
| 24 | Tiruchendur | 1 | T. Ganapathy | INC | Won Uncontested | |||||||||
| 25 | Tirunelveli | 1 | P. T. Thanu Pillai | INC | 1,05,793 | 50.75 | Sankaranarayana Moopanar | IND | 54,319 | 26.06 | 51,474 | 24.69 | ||
| 26 | Tenkasi | 1 | M. Sankarapandian | INC | 1,25,821 | 50.97 | N. Shanmugam | CPI | 1,21,021 | 49.03 | 4,800 | 1.94 | ||
| 27 | Periyakulam | 1 | R. Narayanasamy | INC | 1,16,715 | 50.11 | Muthia | IND | 64,867 | 27.85 | 51,848 | 22.26 | ||
| 28 | Madurai | 1 | K. T. K. Thangamani | CPI | 79,374 | 35.02 | T. K. Rama | INC | 78,286 | 34.54 | 1,088 | 0.48 | ||
| 29 | Dindigul | 2 | M. Ghulam Mohideen | INC | 2,25,510 | 27.99 | S. C. Balakrishna | INC | 1,70,995 | 21.22 | N/A | |||
| 30 | Pollachi | 1 | P. R. Ramakrishnan | INC | 1,39,984 | 53.10 | Gurusami Aicker | PSP | 1,23,618 | 46.90 | 16,366 | 6.20 | ||
| 31 | Namakkal | 2 | E. V. K. Sampath | IND | 1,82,066 | 23.80 | S. R. Arumugam | INC | 1,64,221 | 21.47 | N/A | |||
| 32 | Gobichettipalayam | 1 | Ramasami Gounder | INC | 1,15,365 | 60.69 | Jothinath Singh | CPI | 74,734 | 39.31 | 40,631 | 21.38 | ||
| 33 | Coimbatore | 1 | Parvati | CPI | 1,10,454 | 47.76 | P. S. Rangasami | INC | 95,442 | 41.27 | 15,012 | 6.49 | ||
| 34 | Nilgiris | 1 | C. Nanjappan | INC | 1,22,388 | 59.16 | P. S. Bharathi | IND | 56,754 | 27.43 | 65,634 | 31.73 | ||