Constituency
28. Arakkonam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-ARAKKONAM
DMK 60.1%won by 21.9%NCO 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.4% to 21.9%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 38.2% — 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
70,294
Margin
15,378
21.88%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1BALARAMAN N. S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK42,25660.1%
- 2S. K. SUBRAMANIA MUDALYNCO · NCO26,87838.2%
- 3GAJENTHIRANIndependent · IND1,1601.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −30.9%
- DMK share
- 52.8% → 60.1%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- — → —