Constituency
67. Mugaiyur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-MUGAIYUR
DMK 60.0%won by 29.6%NCO 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.1% to 29.6%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 30.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
64,592
Margin
19,139
29.63%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1A. G. PADMAVATHIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,74460.0%
- 2K. A. RANGANATHANNCO · NCO19,60530.4%
- 3M. GOVINDARASANIndependent · IND4,5817.1%
- 4E. VENKATESAPERUMALIndependent · IND1,6622.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −26.8%
- DMK share
- 56.4% → 60.0%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- — → —