Constituency
3. Basin Bridge
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-BASIN-BRIDGE
DMK 56.7%won by 18.3%NCO 38.4%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.5% to 18.3%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 38.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
86,301
Margin
15,785
18.29%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1M R KANNANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK48,95956.7%
- 2K. RAMADOSSNCO · NCO33,17438.4%
- 3K M HARI BHATTCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,3122.7%
- 4A VARADADESIKANIndependent · IND1,1841.4%
- 5K MUTHIAHIndependent · IND6720.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −35.5%
- DMK share
- 53.8% → 56.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 38.4%
- Turnout
- — → —