Constituency
22. Kottarakara
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-KOTTARAKARA
PSP 48.5%won by 3.8%CPI 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 3.8%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 48.5% of the vote here (+48.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.3% of the vote between them, up from 84.1% — 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
57,529
Margin
2,168
3.77%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1DAMODARAN POTTPraja Socialist Party · PSP27,90948.5%
- 2CHANDRASEKHARAN NAIRCommunist Party of India · CPI25,74144.7%
- 3RAMCHANDRAN NAIRIndependent · IND3,2165.6%
- 4LUKOSEIndependent · IND6631.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–CPI swing
- +55.9%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 48.5%
- CPI share
- 52.1% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → —