Constituency
108. Pollachi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-POLLACHI
DMK 63.5%won by 27.8%IND 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.5% to 27.8%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 35.7% — it polled just 1.2% in 1967.
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
65,567
Margin
18,258
27.85%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMKSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–IND swing
- −29.6%
- DMK share
- 58.6% → 63.5%
- IND share
- 1.2% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- — → —