Constituency
210. Kovilpatti
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-KOVILPATTI
CPI 62.2%won by 24.3%NCO 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.2% to 24.3%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 37.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 92.8% — 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
62,490
Margin
15,198
24.32%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPI- 1ALAGARSAMY S.Communist Party of India · CPI38,84462.2%
- 2SUBBA NAICKER L.NCO · NCO23,64637.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–NCO swing
- −30.7%
- CPI share
- 55.0% → 62.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- — → —