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Constituency

185. Kottur

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971

TN-KOTTUR

CPI 73.3%won by 46.5%NCO 26.7%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.3% to 46.5%.

  • New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 26.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
64,728
Margin
30,110
46.52%

Candidates

2 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1SUBBIAH A. K.Communist Party of India · CPI47,41973.3%
  2. 2RAJAMANICKAM T.NCO · NCO17,30926.7%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPINCO swing
+4.0%
CPI share
42.5% 73.3%
NCO share
0.0% 26.7%
Turnout