Constituency
367. Mettur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-METTUR
INC 59.8%won by 19.6%NCO 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 36.7% to 59.8% of the vote here (+23.1%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 40.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 89.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.7% to 56.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,93,427
Turnout
56.9%
Valid votes
3,37,348
Margin
66,140
19.61%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1G. BHUVARAHANIndian National Congress · INC2,01,74459.8%
- 2K. RAMAMURTHYNCO · NCO1,35,60440.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −17.1%
- INC share
- 36.7% → 59.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- 63.5% → 56.9%