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229. Nagercoil

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971

TN-NAGERCOIL

SWA 48.1%won by 0.7%DMK 47.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Swatantra Party (SWA), which now leads by 0.7%.

  • SWA vote shareSWA went from 0.0% to 48.1% of the vote here (+48.1%).
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 541 votes (0.75%) — among the closest results anywhere.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
72,215
Margin
541
0.75%

Candidates

3 contested · winner SWA
  1. 1MOSES M.Swatantra Party · SWA34,72648.1%
  2. 2CHRISTOPHER G.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK34,18547.3%
  3. 3GOPINATH P.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,3044.6%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
DMK
Winner now
SWAflipped
SWA–DMK swing
+55.8%
SWA share
0.0% → 48.1%
DMK share
55.0% → 47.3%
Turnout
— → —
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