Constituency
149. Thottiyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-THOTTIYAM
DMK 51.4%won by 2.9%NCO 48.6%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.6% to 2.9%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 48.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 94.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
77,398
Margin
2,244
2.90%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1S. K. VADIVELUDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK39,82151.4%
- 2K. M. SHANMUGHASUNDARAMNCO · NCO37,57748.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −51.0%
- DMK share
- 53.9% → 51.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 48.6%
- Turnout
- — → —