Constituency
17. Tirupporur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-TIRUPPORUR
DMK 57.0%won by 21.6%NCO 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.2% to 21.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 35.4% — 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
70,507
Margin
15,237
21.61%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1M MUNU ADHIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK40,18757.0%
- 2T M DHANAPALNCO · NCO24,95035.4%
- 3K KUPPANIndependent · IND4,2236.0%
- 4SAGADEVAN BIndependent · IND7061.0%
- 5P A APPADURAIIndependent · IND4410.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −38.4%
- DMK share
- 60.0% → 57.0%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- — → —