Constituency
357. Tiruttani
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-TIRUTTANI
INC 60.5%won by 21.1%NCO 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 21.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.0% to 60.5% of the vote here (+23.6%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 39.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 92.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.7% to 70.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,65,715
Turnout
70.5%
Valid votes
3,98,731
Margin
84,105
21.09%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1O. V. ALAGESA MUDALIARIndian National Congress · INC2,41,41860.5%
- 2P. RAMACHANDRANNCO · NCO1,57,31339.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −15.9%
- INC share
- 37.0% → 60.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- 75.2% → 70.5%