Constituency
156. Ariyalur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-ARIYALUR
DMK 64.2%won by 34.0%NCO 30.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 34.0%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 35.4% to 64.2% of the vote here (+28.8%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 30.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.4% of the vote between them, up from 72.7% — 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
75,287
Margin
25,580
33.98%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1G. SIVAPERUMALDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK48,32064.2%
- 2R. SAMBASIVAM MOOPANARNCO · NCO22,74030.2%
- 3M. GANESANIndependent · IND3,5354.7%
- 4P. K. THIRUNAVUKKARASUIndependent · IND6920.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- −1.4%
- DMK share
- 35.4% → 64.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 30.2%
- Turnout
- — → —