Constituency
18. Karthigapally
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-KARTHIGAPALLY
CPI 52.0%won by 4.0%PSP 48.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.7% to 4.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Praja Socialist Party (PSP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 75.0% — 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
59,265
Margin
2,399
4.05%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPI- 1R. SUGATHANCommunist Party of India · CPI30,83252.0%
- 2A. ACHUTHANPraja Socialist Party · PSP28,43348.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–PSP swing
- −22.0%
- CPI share
- 43.9% → 52.0%
- PSP share
- 17.8% → 48.0%
- Turnout
- — → —