Constituency
162. Kulithalai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KULITHALAI
DMK 53.7%won by 7.4%NCO 46.3%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.2% to 7.4%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 46.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 94.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
82,343
Margin
6,053
7.35%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1KANDASWAMY M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK44,19853.7%
- 2SRINIVASAN REDDIAR P. E.NCO · NCO38,14546.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −42.3%
- DMK share
- 49.7% → 53.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 46.3%
- Turnout
- — → —