Constituency
144. Dindigul
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-DINDIGUL
NCO 39.8%won by 2.0%IND 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to NCO (NCO), which now leads by 2.0%.
- NCO vote shareNCO went from 0.0% to 39.8% of the vote here (+39.8%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 37.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.6% 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
69,778
Margin
1,391
1.99%
Candidates
4 contested · winner NCO- 1SUNDARAM PILLAI O. N.NCO · NCO27,77539.8%
- 2JAMA HUSSAINIndependent · IND26,38437.8%
- 3BALASUBRAMANYAM A.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,99021.5%
- 4KASTHURINATHAN C.Independent · IND6290.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- NCOflipped
- NCO–IND swing
- +2.0%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 39.8%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- — → —