Constituency
77. Dharmapuri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-DHARMAPURI
DMK 54.2%won by 16.3%NCO 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.8% to 16.3%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 37.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- 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
73,592
Margin
12,027
16.34%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1R. CHINNASAMYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK39,86154.2%
- 2D. N. ADIVELNCO · NCO27,83437.8%
- 3T. MARIAPPA UDAYARIndependent · IND5,8978.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −36.7%
- DMK share
- 53.0% → 54.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- — → —