Constituency
60. Bhuvanagiri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-BHUVANAGIRI
IND 44.3%won by 8.2%NCO 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 8.2%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 2.8% to 44.3% of the vote here (+41.5%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 36.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.4% between them, down from 97.2% — 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
64,585
Margin
5,324
8.24%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1M. A. ABUSALIIndependent · IND28,61544.3%
- 2R. BALAKRISHNANNCO · NCO23,29136.1%
- 3K. ARUMUGAMIndependent · IND9,96215.4%
- 4C. VENKATAKRISHNANIndependent · IND1,6182.5%
- 5P. SUBRARAYANIndependent · IND8651.3%
- 6MOHAMED SHAIK V.Independent · IND2340.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–NCO swing
- +5.5%
- IND share
- 2.8% → 44.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —