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18. Chengalpattu

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971

TN-CHENGALPATTU

DMK 62.1%won by 35.0%NCO 27.1%

What changed here

Derived

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 34.0% to 35.0%.

  • New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 27.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
  • Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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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not in source
Valid votes
67,558
Margin
23,659
35.02%

Candidates

8 contested · winner DMK
  1. 1C G VISHWANATHANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK41,94962.1%
  2. 2S T NEELAKANTANNCO · NCO18,29027.1%
  3. 3P RAMAKRISHNANIndependent · IND3,7485.5%
  4. 4U T KRISHNASAMYIndependent · IND1,4552.2%
  5. 5P RAMASAMYIndependent · IND1,2641.9%
  6. 6S K SUNDER RAJIndependent · IND3450.5%
  7. 7A CHINNAPAYYANIndependent · IND2850.4%
  8. 8N S PARAMANANDAMIndependent · IND2220.3%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
DMK
Winner now
DMK
DMK–NCO swing
−27.7%
DMK share
62.8% → 62.1%
NCO share
0.0% → 27.1%
Turnout
— → —
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