Constituency
42. Cheyyar
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-CHEYYAR
DMK 55.8%won by 11.6%NCO 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.1% to 11.6%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 44.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 80.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
71,655
Margin
8,301
11.58%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1K. GOVINDANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK39,97855.8%
- 2PERUMALSAMY NAYAGARNCO · NCO31,67744.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −43.3%
- DMK share
- 54.9% → 55.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —