Constituency
78. Palacodu
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-PALACODU
DMK 52.8%won by 5.7%NCO 47.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 5.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 44.8% to 52.8% of the vote here (+8.1%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 47.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 94.8% — 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
61,279
Margin
3,477
5.67%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1M. V. KARIVENGADAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK32,37852.8%
- 2B. K. NARASHIMANNCO · NCO28,90147.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- −39.1%
- DMK share
- 44.8% → 52.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 47.2%
- Turnout
- — → —