Constituency
221. Melapalayam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-MELAPALAYAM
MUL 56.7%won by 21.9%NCO 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to MUL (MUL), which now leads by 21.9%.
- MUL vote shareMUL went from 0.0% to 56.7% of the vote here (+56.7%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 34.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.6% between them, down from 97.7% — the field split more ways.
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
62,519
Margin
13,685
21.89%
Candidates
5 contested · winner MUL- 1M. KATHER MOHIDEEN S.MUL · MUL35,47056.7%
- 2SHANMUGAVEL C.NCO · NCO21,78534.8%
- 3SUSAI MARIYAN M.Independent · IND3,7436.0%
- 4SHEIK THAMBI P.Independent · IND1,0311.6%
- 5MUTHUSAMY PANDIAN P.Independent · IND4900.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- MULflipped
- MUL–NCO swing
- +21.9%
- MUL share
- 0.0% → 56.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → —