Constituency
183. Vedaranyam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-VEDARANYAM
DMK 63.9%won by 37.1%NCO 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 37.1%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 38.3% to 63.9% of the vote here (+25.5%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 26.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.6% of the vote between them, up from 77.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
65,436
Margin
24,309
37.15%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1MEENAKSHISUNDARAM M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK41,78763.9%
- 2VELAYUTHAN P. C.NCO · NCO17,47826.7%
- 3RAMING G.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,1719.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- −1.2%
- DMK share
- 38.3% → 63.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —