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Constituency

119. Erode

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971

TN-ERODE

DMK 61.2%won by 22.3%NCO 38.8%

What changed here

Derived

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.6% to 22.3%.

  • New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 38.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 92.7% — 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
78,167
Margin
17,451
22.33%

Candidates

2 contested · winner DMK
  1. 1M. SUBRAMANIANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK47,80961.2%
  2. 2K. P. MUTHUSAMYNCO · NCO30,35838.8%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
DMK
Winner now
DMK
DMKNCO swing
−36.8%
DMK share
59.1% 61.2%
NCO share
0.0% 38.8%
Turnout