Constituency
131. Andipatti
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-ANDIPATTI
SWA 36.4%won by 7.2%FBL 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.7% to 7.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerFBL (FBL) finished second with 29.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.5% 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
57,225
Margin
4,132
7.22%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SWA- 1GURUSAMY NAIDU N. V.Swatantra Party · SWA20,81436.4%
- 2PARAMASIVAM S.FBL · FBL16,68229.2%
- 3VELUCHAMY NAICKER K. V.Independent · IND15,46927.0%
- 4DAS MUTHU GOUNDER T.Independent · IND4,2607.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–FBL swing
- −47.6%
- SWA share
- 54.9% → 36.4%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —