Constituency
75. Uthangarai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-UTHANGARAI
DMK 57.3%won by 18.8%NCO 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 18.8%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 45.9% to 57.3% of the vote here (+11.4%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 38.5% — 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
63,274
Margin
11,864
18.75%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1K. R. KRISHNANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK36,25657.3%
- 2M. RAMANNCO · NCO24,39238.5%
- 3KATHIRVELIndependent · IND2,6264.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- −27.2%
- DMK share
- 45.9% → 57.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- — → —