Constituency
231. Padmanabhapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-PADMANABHAPURAM
NCO 56.1%won by 26.4%DMK 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to NCO (NCO), which now leads by 26.4%.
- NCO vote shareNCO went from 0.0% to 56.1% of the vote here (+56.1%).
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 29.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.7% of the vote between them, up from 79.2% — 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
57,833
Margin
15,242
26.36%
Candidates
3 contested · winner NCO- 1SWAMDIHAS NADAR A.NCO · NCO32,41656.1%
- 2MICHAEL G. C.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK17,17429.7%
- 3ALI M. M.Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,24314.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- NCOflipped
- NCO–DMK swing
- +26.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 56.1%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —