Constituency
160. Tiruchirapalli-Ii
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-TIRUCHIRAPALLI-II
DMK 55.7%won by 12.8%NCO 43.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 12.7% to 12.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 43.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 79.4% — 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
72,829
Margin
9,298
12.77%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1DHARMALINGAM A. PI.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK40,59355.7%
- 2SUBRAMANIANNCO · NCO31,29543.0%
- 3ABASS S. M. M.Independent · IND5860.8%
- 4SHERIFF ROWTHERIndependent · IND3550.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −33.3%
- DMK share
- 46.1% → 55.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 43.0%
- Turnout
- — → —