Constituency
115. Palladam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-PALLADAM
PSP 57.6%won by 22.8%NCO 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.1% to 22.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 34.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.3% of the vote between them, up from 82.9% — 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
60,583
Margin
13,806
22.79%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1K. N. KUMARASAMYPraja Socialist Party · PSP34,87657.6%
- 2R. SENGALIAPPANNCO · NCO21,07034.8%
- 3ARANGARAMURTHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,6377.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–NCO swing
- −24.2%
- PSP share
- 47.0% → 57.6%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → —