Constituency
49. Tiruvannamalai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-TIRUVANNAMALAI
DMK 62.2%won by 24.4%NCO 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 24.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 45.3% to 62.2% of the vote here (+17.0%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 37.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 94.6% — 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
74,956
Margin
18,310
24.43%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1P. U. SHANMUGAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK46,63362.2%
- 2D. ANNAMALAI PILLAINCO · NCO28,32337.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- −20.8%
- DMK share
- 45.3% → 62.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- — → —