Constituency
43. Vandavasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-VANDAVASI
DMK 63.9%won by 27.7%NCO 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 27.5% to 27.7%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 36.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
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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not in source
Valid votes
64,917
Margin
17,987
27.71%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1V. RAJAGOPALDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK41,45263.9%
- 2D. DASARATHANNCO · NCO23,46536.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −33.5%
- DMK share
- 61.3% → 63.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —