Constituency
73. Krishnagiri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KRISHNAGIRI
DMK 63.0%won by 26.0%NCO 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 26.0%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 47.0% to 63.0% of the vote here (+16.0%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 37.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 94.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
49,916
Margin
12,974
25.99%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1C. MANNIAPPANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK31,44563.0%
- 2T. G. SELVARAJNCO · NCO18,47137.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- −21.0%
- DMK share
- 47.0% → 63.0%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- — → —