Constituency
369. Nilgiris
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-NILGIRIS
DMK 58.3%won by 16.5%NCO 41.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 16.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 58.3% of the vote here (+58.3%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 41.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 90.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.7% to 66.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,53,870
Turnout
66.8%
Valid votes
3,70,214
Margin
61,094
16.50%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1J. MATHA GOWDERDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,15,65458.3%
- 2AKKAMMA DEVINCO · NCO1,54,56041.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- +16.5%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 58.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 41.7%
- Turnout
- 69.5% → 66.8%