Constituency
32. Katpadi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KATPADI
DMK 57.8%won by 25.5%NCO 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.8% to 25.5%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 32.2% — 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
64,868
Margin
16,568
25.54%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1DURAI MURUGANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK37,48757.8%
- 2DHANDAYUTHAPANINCO · NCO20,91932.2%
- 3SUNDARAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,1339.5%
- 4M. MANICKAMIndependent · IND3290.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −27.5%
- DMK share
- 53.1% → 57.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —