Constituency
50. Melmalayanur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-MELMALAYANUR
DMK 53.5%won by 15.2%NCO 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.2% to 15.2%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 38.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.8% of the vote between them, up from 77.2% — 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
58,207
Margin
8,872
15.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1R. R. MUNUSAMIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK31,16653.5%
- 2GOPAL GOUNDER K.NCO · NCO22,29438.3%
- 3P. THANGAVEL KANDERIndependent · IND3,7456.4%
- 4M. A. KUTHANIndependent · IND1,0021.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −35.4%
- DMK share
- 50.7% → 53.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → —