Constituency
40. Puthupally
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-PUTHUPALLY
INC 57.5%won by 15.0%CPI 42.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.3% to 15.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 93.8% — 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
52,609
Margin
7,911
15.04%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1P. C. CHERIANIndian National Congress · INC30,26057.5%
- 2M. THOMASCommunist Party of India · CPI22,34942.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +11.7%
- INC share
- 48.6% → 57.5%
- CPI share
- 45.2% → 42.5%
- Turnout
- — → —