Constituency
55. Villupuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1971
TN-VILLUPURAM
DMK 51.4%won by 10.4%NCO 41.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.5% to 10.4%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 41.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.4% between them, down from 99.0% — the field split more ways.
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
69,704
Margin
7,276
10.44%
Candidates
3 contested · winner DMK- 1M. SHANMUGAMDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK35,83851.4%
- 2V. P. SHARANGAPANI GOUNDERNCO · NCO28,56241.0%
- 3A. RAMALINGAMIndependent · IND5,3047.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–NCO swing
- −43.3%
- DMK share
- 53.7% → 51.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 41.0%
- Turnout
- — → —