Constituency
388. Tirunelveli
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-TIRUNELVELI
CPI 56.3%won by 15.7%SWA 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 15.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 14.6% to 56.3% of the vote here (+41.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.8% of the vote between them, up from 85.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.2% to 65.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,84,445
Turnout
65.2%
Valid votes
3,80,778
Margin
59,937
15.74%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1S. A, MURUGANANTHAMCommunist Party of India · CPI2,14,21456.3%
- 2S. PALANISWAMINATHANSwatantra Party · SWA1,54,27740.5%
- 3H. SOMASUNDARAMIndependent · IND12,2873.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–SWA swing
- +49.3%
- CPI share
- 14.6% → 56.3%
- SWA share
- 48.1% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- 71.4% → 65.2%