Constituency
106. Coimbatore South
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-COIMBATORE-SOUTH
DMK 46.7%won by 5.3%NCO 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 5.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 46.7% of the vote here (+46.7%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 41.4% — 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
66,367
Margin
3,512
5.29%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1K. RANGANA THANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK31,00346.7%
- 2A. DEVARAJNCO · NCO27,49141.4%
- 3M. BUPATHYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,87311.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- +5.3%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 46.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- — → —