Constituency
70. Kallakurichi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KALLAKURICHI
DMK 52.8%won by 5.7%NCO 47.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.2% to 5.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 47.2% — 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
72,887
Margin
4,139
5.68%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1D. KESAVALUDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,51352.8%
- 2S. SIVARAMANNCO · NCO34,37447.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −50.7%
- DMK share
- 56.4% → 52.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 47.2%
- Turnout
- — → —