Constituency
134. Usilampatti
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-USILAMPATTI
FBL 74.5%won by 48.9%IND 25.5%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 45.9% to 48.9%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.5% — it polled just 1.7% in 1967.
- Safe seatFBL won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
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
66,201
Margin
32,383
48.92%
Candidates
2 contested · winner FBL- 1P. K. MOOKIAH THEVARFBL · FBL49,29274.5%
- 2S. ANDI THEVARIndependent · IND16,90925.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–IND swing
- −21.5%
- FBL share
- 72.1% → 74.5%
- IND share
- 1.7% → 25.5%
- Turnout
- — → —