Constituency
38. Ambur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-AMBUR
DMK 55.2%won by 19.2%NCO 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 18.9% to 19.2%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 35.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- 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
59,697
Margin
11,488
19.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1M. PANNEERSELVAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK32,93755.2%
- 2ADIMOOLAM M.NCO · NCO21,44935.9%
- 3DAMODARAN V. K.Independent · IND5,1298.6%
- 4ASHOK JOHN JOSEPH R. S.Independent · IND1820.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −37.1%
- DMK share
- 56.3% → 55.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- — → —