Constituency
69. Sankarapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-SANKARAPURAM
DMK 50.1%won by 0.1%NCO 49.9%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.7% to 0.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 49.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
57,016
Margin
72
0.13%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1N. NATCHIYAPPANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK28,54450.1%
- 2DURAIMUTHUSAMYNCO · NCO28,47249.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −54.6%
- DMK share
- 54.7% → 50.1%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 49.9%
- Turnout
- — → —