Constituency
100. Mettuppalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-METTUPPALAYAM
DMK 56.1%won by 12.2%IND 43.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 12.2%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 40.9% to 56.1% of the vote here (+15.2%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 43.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 86.3% — 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
69,566
Margin
8,460
12.16%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1M. C. THOOYAMANIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK39,01356.1%
- 2RAMASWAMIIndependent · IND30,55343.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–IND swing
- −28.7%
- DMK share
- 40.9% → 56.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 43.9%
- Turnout
- — → —