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Constituency

80. Mettur

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971

TN-METTUR

PSP 57.4%won by 19.6%NCO 37.9%

What changed here

Derived

Praja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.6% to 19.6%.

  • New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 37.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.3% of the vote between them, up from 87.9% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
56,844
Margin
11,118
19.56%

Candidates

3 contested · winner PSP
  1. 1SURENDRANPraja Socialist Party · PSP32,65657.4%
  2. 2KARUPPANNA GOUNDERNCO · NCO21,53837.9%
  3. 3SENGODA GOUNDERIndependent · IND2,6504.7%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
PSP
Winner now
PSP
PSPNCO swing
−29.2%
PSP share
48.8% 57.4%
NCO share
0.0% 37.9%
Turnout