Constituency
176. Sembanarkoil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-SEMBANARKOIL
DMK 56.3%won by 24.0%NCO 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.6% to 24.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 32.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.5% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
60,298
Margin
14,490
24.03%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1SAMPATH T. V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK33,93756.3%
- 2SAMBANDAM K. R.NCO · NCO19,44732.3%
- 3MUTHUSAMY V. K.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,91411.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −41.3%
- DMK share
- 65.3% → 56.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —