Constituency
72. Guruvayur
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-GURUVAYUR
INC 49.3%won by 1.9%CPI 47.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.0% to 49.3% of the vote here (+11.3%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 47.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.6% of the vote between them, up from 83.1% — 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
52,944
Margin
1,008
1.90%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1K. G. KARUNAKARAIndian National Congress · INC26,08349.3%
- 2K. DAMODARANCommunist Party of India · CPI25,07547.4%
- 3BHARATHANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,7863.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −36.1%
- INC share
- 38.0% → 49.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 47.4%
- Turnout
- — → —