Constituency
16. St Thomas Mount
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-ST-THOMAS-MOUNT
DMK 61.1%won by 23.0%NCO 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.1% to 23.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 38.1% — 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,07,028
Margin
24,632
23.01%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1M G RAMACHANDRANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK65,40561.1%
- 2T L RAGHUPATHYNCO · NCO40,77338.1%
- 3M VARADARAJANIndependent · IND8500.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −43.7%
- DMK share
- 66.7% → 61.1%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —