Constituency
152. Perambalur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-PERAMBALUR
DMK 55.3%won by 22.2%NCO 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.4% to 22.2%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 33.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.3% of the vote between them, up from 78.0% — a tighter two-way 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
70,623
Margin
15,708
22.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1J. S. RAJUDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK39,04355.3%
- 2K. PERIYANANNCO · NCO23,33533.0%
- 3T. KALIYAPERUMALIndependent · IND5,5457.9%
- 4M. PALANIMUTHUIndependent · IND2,7003.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −24.0%
- DMK share
- 46.2% → 55.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —