Constituency
46. Chengam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-CHENGAM
DMK 61.4%won by 29.6%NCO 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.1% to 29.6%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 31.8% — 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
52,551
Margin
15,555
29.60%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1C. PANDURANGAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK32,26061.4%
- 2A. AR. MUGAMNCO · NCO16,70531.8%
- 3A. RAMASAMYIndependent · IND3,5866.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −27.2%
- DMK share
- 56.8% → 61.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —