Constituency
23. Kunnathur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KUNNATHUR
DMK 64.5%won by 31.0%NCO 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.2% to 31.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 33.5% — 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
73,091
Margin
22,638
30.97%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1M. GOPALDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK47,12664.5%
- 2P. APPAVOONCO · NCO24,48833.5%
- 3G. DAYALANIndependent · IND1,4772.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −37.9%
- DMK share
- 68.9% → 64.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- — → —