Constituency
370. Coimbatore
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-COIMBATORE
CPI 53.0%won by 19.0%NCO 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 19.0%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 53.0% of the vote here (+53.0%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 10.0% to 64.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,31,568
Turnout
64.1%
Valid votes
4,04,983
Margin
77,053
19.03%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1K. BALATHANDAYUTHAMCommunist Party of India · CPI2,14,82453.0%
- 2RAMASWAMYNCO · NCO1,37,77134.0%
- 3K. BAMANICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM52,38812.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–NCO swing
- +19.0%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 53.0%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- 74.1% → 64.1%