Constituency
116. Tiruppur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-TIRUPPUR
DMK 54.9%won by 10.5%IND 44.4%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.9% to 10.5%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 44.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.3% of the vote between them, up from 80.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
74,281
Margin
7,767
10.46%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1S. DORAISAMYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK40,76254.9%
- 2KHADER S. A.Independent · IND32,99544.4%
- 3N. RANGASAMI CHETTIARIndependent · IND5240.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–IND swing
- −39.6%
- DMK share
- 50.1% → 54.9%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 44.4%
- Turnout
- — → —