Constituency
380. Pudukkottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-PUDUKKOTTAI
DMK 55.3%won by 10.6%NCO 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 10.6%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 55.3% of the vote here (+55.3%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 44.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 94.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,04,445
Turnout
75.3%
Valid votes
4,55,327
Margin
48,395
10.63%
Candidates
2 contested · winner DMK- 1K. VEERIAHDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,51,86155.3%
- 2R. VIJAYA REGHUNATHA THONDAIMANNCO · NCO2,03,46644.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–NCO swing
- +10.6%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 55.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- 76.9% → 75.3%