Constituency
97. Gudalur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-GUDALUR
SWA 45.5%won by 4.8%CPI 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Swatantra Party (SWA), which now leads by 4.8%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 40.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.1% between them, down from 97.0% — the field split more ways.
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
40,745
Margin
1,941
4.76%
Candidates
3 contested · winner SWA- 1K. H. BOMMANSwatantra Party · SWA18,51945.5%
- 2K. PUTTACommunist Party of India · CPI16,57840.7%
- 3K. RAJANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,64813.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SWAflipped
- SWA–CPI swing
- −43.0%
- SWA share
- 47.7% → 45.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- — → —