Constituency
109. Valparai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-VALPARAI
DMK 65.3%won by 40.5%NCO 24.8%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 32.5% to 40.5%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 24.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.2% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
59,344
Margin
24,051
40.53%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1E. RAMASWAMYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,77965.3%
- 2M. KUPPUSWAMYNCO · NCO14,72824.8%
- 3K. MAKALIAPPANIndependent · IND4,7338.0%
- 4N. RAJIIndependent · IND5701.0%
- 5G. SUBRAMANIAMIndependent · IND5340.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −25.7%
- DMK share
- 66.2% → 65.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 24.8%
- Turnout
- — → —