Constituency
112. Vellakoil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-VELLAKOIL
DMK 68.1%won by 41.8%IND 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 26.4% to 41.8%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 26.3% — it polled just 1.5% 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
61,772
Margin
25,836
41.82%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1M. PILANISAMYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK42,06768.1%
- 2S. M. RAMASWAMY GOUNDERIndependent · IND16,23126.3%
- 3K. KUPPUSAMY GOUNDERIndependent · IND2,7804.5%
- 4K. N. LINGASAMY GOUNDERIndependent · IND6941.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–IND swing
- −19.1%
- DMK share
- 62.4% → 68.1%
- IND share
- 1.5% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —