Constituency
56. Nellikuppam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-NELLIKUPPAM
DMK 44.9%won by 9.4%NCO 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 9.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 44.9% of the vote here (+44.9%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 35.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.4% between them, down from 86.1% — 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
61,741
Margin
5,820
9.43%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1V. KRISHNAMOORTHI GOUNDERDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK27,74144.9%
- 2K. G. KANDANNCO · NCO21,92135.5%
- 3C. GOVINDARANJANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,47112.1%
- 4C. GUNASEKARANIndependent · IND4,3257.0%
- 5R. M. RAJANIndependent · IND2830.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- +9.4%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 44.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- — → —