Constituency
20. Acharapakkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-ACHARAPAKKAM
DMK 66.8%won by 44.2%NCO 22.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 44.2%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 66.8% of the vote here (+66.8%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 22.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.3% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
59,636
Margin
26,359
44.20%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1V BALASUNDARAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK39,81666.8%
- 2C GANESANNCO · NCO13,45722.6%
- 3A PERUMALIndependent · IND4,3467.3%
- 4C ELUMALAIIndependent · IND1,6522.8%
- 5JEYARAJ J RIndependent · IND3650.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- +44.2%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 66.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —