Constituency
54. Kandamangalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KANDAMANGALAM
DMK 57.3%won by 20.7%NCO 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.7% to 20.7%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 36.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.9% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
56,329
Margin
11,665
20.71%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1M. RAMANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK32,29357.3%
- 2P. P. MATHAVANNCO · NCO20,62836.6%
- 3K. MUNIANIndependent · IND3,4086.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −35.1%
- DMK share
- 55.8% → 57.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 36.6%
- Turnout
- — → —