Constituency
96. Talavasal
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-TALAVASAL
DMK 48.7%won by 4.8%NCO 43.9%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.7% to 4.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 43.9% — 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
66,145
Margin
3,182
4.81%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1MOO MARIMUTHUDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK32,19548.7%
- 2T. ER. SAPPANNCO · NCO29,01343.9%
- 3A. R. PALAMUTHUIndependent · IND4,2896.5%
- 4A. SHANMUGANIndependent · IND6481.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −50.6%
- DMK share
- 55.4% → 48.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 43.9%
- Turnout
- — → —