Constituency
371. Pollachi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-POLLACHI
DMK 41.6%won by 14.3%DMK 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.2% to 14.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.9% between them, down from 96.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.1% to 68.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,04,191
Turnout
68.6%
Valid votes
6,43,907
Margin
92,233
14.32%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1NARAYANANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,67,81141.6%
- 2M.KALINGARAYARDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,75,57827.3%
- 3K. R. NALLASIVAMSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,41,60522.0%
- 4R.K.GOUNDERIndependent · IND51,3948.0%
- 5K. N. LINGASAMI GOUNDERIndependent · IND4,7990.7%
- 6A.CHETTIARIndependent · IND2,7200.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–DMK swing
- 0.0%
- DMK share
- 58.6% → 41.6%
- DMK share
- 58.6% → 41.6%
- Turnout
- 73.7% → 68.6%