Constituency
166. Thirumaiyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-THIRUMAIYAM
DMK 53.2%won by 19.7%NCO 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.5% to 19.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 33.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.7% between them, down from 97.1% — the field split more ways.
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
72,615
Margin
14,277
19.66%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1A. THIAGARAJANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,63053.2%
- 2PR. RAMANATHANNCO · NCO24,35333.5%
- 3R. UMANATHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,4707.5%
- 4V. SOMASUNDARAMIndependent · IND3,1864.4%
- 5A. K. SAKTHIVELIndependent · IND6951.0%
- 6S. K. CHINNIAH MUTHURASHAIndependent · IND2810.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −43.1%
- DMK share
- 62.8% → 53.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- — → —