Constituency
126. Palani
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-PALANI
DMK 55.8%won by 20.5%NCO 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.6% to 20.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 35.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.0% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
69,764
Margin
14,330
20.54%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1PALANISAMY C.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,91955.8%
- 2SUBRAMANIAN R.NCO · NCO24,58935.2%
- 3PALANIVEL N.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,2569.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −45.3%
- DMK share
- 65.8% → 55.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- — → —