Constituency
209. Vilathikulam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-VILATHIKULAM
DMK 57.3%won by 18.5%NCO 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.6% to 18.5%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 38.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.2% of the vote between them, up from 69.4% — 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
56,834
Margin
10,486
18.45%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1RATHINASABAPATHY M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK32,58357.3%
- 2SUBBA REDDIAR K.NCO · NCO22,09738.9%
- 3RAMALINGAM S.Independent · IND2,1543.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −19.0%
- DMK share
- 37.5% → 57.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —