Constituency
12. Saidapet
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-SAIDAPET
DMK 54.5%won by 10.8%NCO 43.7%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.4% to 10.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 43.7% — 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
1,16,290
Margin
12,511
10.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1M KARUNANIDHIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK63,33454.5%
- 2N KAMALINGAMNCO · NCO50,82343.7%
- 3R M ANNAMLAI R MIndependent · IND1,0340.9%
- 4S KRISHNAMURTHYIndependent · IND9430.8%
- 5M K PARASURAM PRABHUIndependent · IND1560.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −50.2%
- DMK share
- 61.0% → 54.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 43.7%
- Turnout
- — → —