Constituency
386. Ramanathapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-RAMANATHAPURAM
FBL 58.2%won by 19.3%NCO 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 19.3%.
- FBL vote shareFBL went from 0.0% to 58.2% of the vote here (+58.2%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 38.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.0% of the vote between them, up from 86.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.6% to 62.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,70,111
Turnout
62.9%
Valid votes
3,58,348
Margin
69,155
19.30%
Candidates
3 contested · winner FBL- 1P. K. MOOKKIAH THEVARFBL · FBL2,08,43158.2%
- 2S. BALAKRISHNANNCO · NCO1,39,27638.9%
- 3T. DURAIRAJ THEVAR SADHUIndependent · IND10,6413.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- FBLflipped
- FBL–NCO swing
- +19.3%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 58.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- 72.5% → 62.9%