Constituency
80. Mettur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-METTUR
PSP 57.4%won by 19.6%NCO 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedPraja 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
56,844
Margin
11,118
19.56%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1SURENDRANPraja Socialist Party · PSP32,65657.4%
- 2KARUPPANNA GOUNDERNCO · NCO21,53837.9%
- 3SENGODA GOUNDERIndependent · IND2,6504.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–NCO swing
- −29.2%
- PSP share
- 48.8% → 57.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- — → —