Constituency
45. Polur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-POLUR
DMK 57.9%won by 15.8%NCO 42.1%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.3% to 15.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 42.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 91.5% — 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
59,960
Margin
9,496
15.84%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1T. P. SRINIVASANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,72857.9%
- 2NATESA GOUNDER T. R.NCO · NCO25,23242.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −41.1%
- DMK share
- 56.9% → 57.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 42.1%
- Turnout
- — → —