Constituency
383. Nagapattinam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-NAGAPATTINAM
CPI 54.9%won by 21.9%NCO 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 21.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 19.3% to 54.9% of the vote here (+35.7%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 33.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.0% of the vote between them, up from 80.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.1% to 77.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,17,251
Turnout
77.3%
Valid votes
3,99,812
Margin
87,727
21.94%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1M. KATHAMUTHUCommunist Party of India · CPI2,19,68454.9%
- 2V. SABASIVAMNCO · NCO1,31,95733.0%
- 3G. BHARATHIMOHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM48,17112.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–NCO swing
- +2.6%
- CPI share
- 19.3% → 54.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- 82.4% → 77.3%