Constituency
178. Kuttalam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KUTTALAM
DMK 54.6%won by 19.2%NCO 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 19.2%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 54.6% of the vote here (+54.6%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 35.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.0% between them, down from 96.5% — 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
63,733
Margin
12,227
19.18%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1S. GANESANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,78154.6%
- 2K. K. DEENNCO · NCO22,55435.4%
- 3C. NATARAJA PILLAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,8869.2%
- 4M. SOMASUNDARAMIndependent · IND5120.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- +19.2%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 54.6%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- — → —