Constituency
1. Washermanpet
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-WASHERMANPET
DMK 54.0%won by 9.4%NCO 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.6% to 9.4%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 44.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 90.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
72,143
Margin
6,758
9.37%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1M.VEDACHALAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,98954.0%
- 2ANANTHANNCO · NCO32,23144.7%
- 3K V MANAVALA NAICKERIndependent · IND9231.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −41.3%
- DMK share
- 50.7% → 54.0%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → —