Constituency
128. Bodinayakkanur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-BODINAYAKKANUR
DMK 54.4%won by 25.2%IND 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 25.2%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 54.4% of the vote here (+54.4%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 29.3% — it polled just 1.4% in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.7% between them, down from 98.6% — 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
65,091
Margin
16,377
25.16%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1SURULIVEL M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK35,42754.4%
- 2YELLANNA A.Independent · IND19,05029.3%
- 3SOUNDARAVEL S. AT. A. P.Independent · IND10,61416.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–IND swing
- +26.6%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 54.4%
- IND share
- 1.4% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- — → —