Constituency
218. Cheranmahadevi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-CHERANMAHADEVI
SWA 50.1%won by 0.3%DMK 49.9%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.5% to 0.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 49.9% — 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
69,285
Margin
193
0.28%
Candidates
2 contested · winner SWA- 1SIVAPRAKASAM D. S. A.Swatantra Party · SWA34,73950.1%
- 2RATNAVELPANDIAN S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,54649.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–DMK swing
- −53.5%
- SWA share
- 53.8% → 50.1%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 49.9%
- Turnout
- — → —