Constituency
153. Varahur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-VARAHUR
DMK 58.9%won by 23.0%NCO 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.6% to 23.0%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 35.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.8% of the vote between them, up from 80.7% — 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
72,538
Margin
16,690
23.01%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1K. PALANIVELANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK42,73358.9%
- 2K. C. PERIYASAMYNCO · NCO26,04335.9%
- 3M. PERUMALIndependent · IND3,7625.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −26.6%
- DMK share
- 49.6% → 58.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- — → —