Constituency
51. Poonjar
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-POONJAR
INC 71.3%won by 42.6%CPI 28.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 35.2% to 42.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 87.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
50,086
Margin
21,358
42.64%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1T. A. THOMMANIndian National Congress · INC35,72271.3%
- 2KUMARA MENONCommunist Party of India · CPI14,36428.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +7.5%
- INC share
- 61.2% → 71.3%
- CPI share
- 26.0% → 28.7%
- Turnout
- — → —