Constituency
48. Kalasapakkam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KALASAPAKKAM
DMK 58.9%won by 17.8%NCO 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 17.8%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 32.3% to 58.9% of the vote here (+26.6%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 41.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 83.7% — 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
72,853
Margin
12,933
17.75%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1S. MURUGAIYANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK42,89358.9%
- 2M. SUNDRASWAMYNCO · NCO29,96041.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- −14.5%
- DMK share
- 32.3% → 58.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —