Constituency
163. Krishnarajapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KRISHNARAJAPURAM
DMK 55.0%won by 10.9%NCO 44.1%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.4% to 10.9%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 44.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 93.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
65,737
Margin
7,157
10.89%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1P. SOUNDARA PANDIANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK36,17755.0%
- 2P. M. THANGAVELRAJNCO · NCO29,02044.1%
- 3P. PALANIYANDIIndependent · IND5400.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −37.8%
- DMK share
- 48.7% → 55.0%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 44.1%
- Turnout
- — → —