Constituency

215. Tenkasi

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971

TN-TENKASI

DMK 55.7%won by 11.3%NCO 44.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 11.3%.

DMK vote shareDMK went from 48.8% to 55.7% of the vote here (+6.9%).
New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 44.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.

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

70,260

Margin

7,960

11.33%

2 contested · winner DMK

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