Constituency
118. Perundurai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-PERUNDURAI
CPI 56.4%won by 12.7%IND 43.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 12.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 9.7% to 56.4% of the vote here (+46.7%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 43.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 90.3% — 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
68,982
Margin
8,782
12.73%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPI- 1N. K. PALANISAMYCommunist Party of India · CPI38,88256.4%
- 2K. CHINNASAMY GOUNDERIndependent · IND30,10043.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–IND swing
- +3.1%
- CPI share
- 9.7% → 56.4%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 43.6%
- Turnout
- — → —