Constituency
208. Rajapalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-RAJAPALAYAM
CPI 50.5%won by 0.9%NCO 49.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 0.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 50.5% of the vote here (+50.5%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 49.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 88.4% — 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
72,990
Margin
664
0.91%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPI- 1SUPPU K.Communist Party of India · CPI36,82750.5%
- 2SRIRENGA RAJA K. R.NCO · NCO36,16349.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–NCO swing
- +0.9%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 50.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 49.5%
- Turnout
- — → —