Constituency
182. Nagapattinam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-NAGAPATTINAM
DMK 44.8%won by 9.6%NCO 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 9.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 44.8% of the vote here (+44.8%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 35.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.0% between them, down from 97.2% — 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
66,392
Margin
6,402
9.64%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1RAJAMANICKAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK29,74444.8%
- 2RAMANATHA THEVARNCO · NCO23,34235.2%
- 3GANASAMPANDAN K. R.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,30620.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- +9.6%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 44.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- — → —