Constituency
181. Thiruvarur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-THIRUVARUR
DMK 47.5%won by 18.7%NCO 28.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 18.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 47.5% of the vote here (+47.5%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 28.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.2% between them, down from 92.1% — 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
64,950
Margin
12,142
18.69%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1KARUNANITHI M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK30,82847.5%
- 2VEDAIYAN V.NCO · NCO18,68628.8%
- 3THAMBUCHCHAMY V.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,43623.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- +18.7%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 47.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 28.8%
- Turnout
- — → —