Constituency
384. Thanjavur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-THANJAVUR
DMK 57.3%won by 21.3%NCO 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.3% to 21.3%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 36.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.3% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.4% to 78.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,96,459
Turnout
78.7%
Valid votes
4,69,379
Margin
1,00,008
21.31%
Candidates
4 contested · winner DMK- 1S. D. SOMASUNDARAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,68,98057.3%
- 2R. KRISHNASAMY GOPALARNCO · NCO1,68,97236.0%
- 3K. M. VEERAMUTHUIndependent · IND25,4255.4%
- 4M. SELVAM CHETTIARIndependent · IND6,0021.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −31.3%
- DMK share
- 52.6% → 57.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 82.1% → 78.7%