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Constituency

118. Perundurai

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971

TN-PERUNDURAI

CPI 56.4%won by 12.7%IND 43.6%

What changed here

Derived

The 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
68,982
Margin
8,782
12.73%

Candidates

2 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1N. K. PALANISAMYCommunist Party of India · CPI38,88256.4%
  2. 2K. CHINNASAMY GOUNDERIndependent · IND30,10043.6%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
SSP
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPIIND swing
+3.1%
CPI share
9.7% 56.4%
IND share
0.0% 43.6%
Turnout