Constituency
113. Kangayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KANGAYAM
DMK 66.4%won by 34.5%IND 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 34.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 36.2% to 66.4% of the vote here (+30.2%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 31.9% — it polled just 1.4% in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.3% of the vote between them, up from 72.6% — 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
63,942
Margin
22,042
34.47%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1KOVAI CHEZHIYANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK42,46166.4%
- 2K. G. PALANISAMY GOUNDERIndependent · IND20,41931.9%
- 3RAMANIndependent · IND1,0621.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–IND swing
- −0.3%
- DMK share
- 36.2% → 66.4%
- IND share
- 1.4% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- — → —