Constituency
24. Pathanapuram
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-PATHANAPURAM
INC 52.6%won by 6.8%CPI 45.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.9% to 52.6% of the vote here (+23.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 77.8% — 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
66,830
Margin
4,535
6.79%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BALAKRISHNA PILLAIIndian National Congress · INC35,13652.6%
- 2RAJAGOPALAN NAIRCommunist Party of India · CPI30,60145.8%
- 3KRISHNAN NAIRIndependent · IND7511.1%
- 4KOCHUKUNJUIndependent · IND3420.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +26.9%
- INC share
- 28.9% → 52.6%
- CPI share
- 49.0% → 45.8%
- Turnout
- — → —