Constituency
159. Tiruchirapalli-I
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-TIRUCHIRAPALLI-I
DMK 52.7%won by 6.4%NCO 46.2%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.0% to 6.4%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 46.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
72,358
Margin
4,649
6.42%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1KRISHNAMURTHY V.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK38,09952.7%
- 2LOURDUSAMY PILLAI A. S. G.NCO · NCO33,45046.2%
- 3MURUGYAH PILLAI S.Independent · IND8091.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −45.6%
- DMK share
- 52.1% → 52.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 46.2%
- Turnout
- — → —