Constituency
150. Musiri
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-MUSIRI
DMK 54.3%won by 16.8%NCO 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.7% to 16.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 37.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
64,641
Margin
10,859
16.80%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1P. S. MUTHUSELVANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK35,09154.3%
- 2A. R. MURUGAIAHNCO · NCO24,23237.5%
- 3K. N. THANGAVELUIndependent · IND4,4796.9%
- 4R. GOVINDARAJANIndependent · IND8391.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −34.7%
- DMK share
- 51.5% → 54.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- — → —