Constituency
14. Ponneri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-PONNERI
DMK 58.4%won by 26.6%NCO 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.0% to 26.6%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.2% between them, down from 98.2% — the field split more ways.
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
68,136
Margin
18,133
26.61%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1P NAGALINGAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK39,78358.4%
- 2ELUMALAI T PNCO · NCO21,65031.8%
- 3C K MANICKAMIndependent · IND6,7039.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −30.0%
- DMK share
- 56.6% → 58.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —