Constituency
165. Viralimalai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-VIRALIMALAI
DMK 57.5%won by 15.9%NCO 41.6%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.4% to 15.9%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 41.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.1% of the vote between them, up from 92.8% — 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
72,757
Margin
11,539
15.86%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1ILECHEZHIYAN V. S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK41,81357.5%
- 2KARUPPIAH UDAYAR A.NCO · NCO30,27441.6%
- 3PERUMAL A.Independent · IND6700.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −33.8%
- DMK share
- 49.6% → 57.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 41.6%
- Turnout
- — → —