Constituency
43. Meenachil
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-MEENACHIL
INC 66.3%won by 32.6%CPI 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.8% to 32.6%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 33.7% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
46,389
Margin
15,101
32.55%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1P. T. CHACKO (THOMAS)Indian National Congress · INC30,74566.3%
- 2JACOB CHERIANCommunist Party of India · CPI15,64433.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −27.4%
- INC share
- 59.9% → 66.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —