Constituency
169. Thiruvaiyaru
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-THIRUVAIYARU
DMK 50.7%won by 10.0%NCO 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 10.0%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 40.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.5% between them, down from 99.0% — 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
73,186
Margin
7,326
10.01%
Candidates
5 contested · winner DMK- 1ILANGOVAN G.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK37,13950.7%
- 2PALANI K. B.NCO · NCO29,81340.7%
- 3KEVUNRAJIndependent · IND3,1744.3%
- 4VENKITAJALA KODUMBURARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,6173.6%
- 5NAGARAJANIndependent · IND4430.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −41.9%
- DMK share
- 51.9% → 50.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- — → —