Constituency
16. Krishnapuram
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-KRISHNAPURAM
PSP 50.6%won by 1.2%CPI 49.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 1.2%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 14.4% to 50.6% of the vote here (+36.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.5% — 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
55,830
Margin
664
1.19%
Candidates
2 contested · winner PSP- 1P. K. KUNJUPraja Socialist Party · PSP28,24750.6%
- 2KARTHIKEYANCommunist Party of India · CPI27,58349.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–CPI swing
- +38.2%
- PSP share
- 14.4% → 50.6%
- CPI share
- 51.4% → 49.4%
- Turnout
- — → —