Constituency
5. Trivandrum I
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-TRIVANDRUM-I
PSP 51.8%won by 13.2%CPI 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.4% to 13.2%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 38.6% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.4% of the vote between them, up from 76.3% — 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
52,751
Margin
6,943
13.16%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1B. P. EAPENPraja Socialist Party · PSP27,32851.8%
- 2KRISHNAN NAIRCommunist Party of India · CPI20,38538.6%
- 3BALAKRISHNANIndependent · IND5,0389.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–CPI swing
- −27.7%
- PSP share
- 40.9% → 51.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- — → —