Constituency
74. Ponnani
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-PONNANI
INC 26.5%won by 1.2%ML 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.0% to 1.2%.
- New challengerML (ML) finished second with 25.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 51.9% of the vote between them, up from 38.1% — 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
1,70,944
Margin
1,966
1.15%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KUNHAMBU KALLENIndian National Congress · INC45,32626.5%
- 2CHERUKOYA THANGALML · ML43,36025.4%
- 3E. T. KUNHANCommunist Party of India · CPI41,31624.2%
- 4UNNI KRISHNA WARRIERCommunist Party of India · CPI40,94224.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–ML swing
- −18.9%
- INC share
- 20.0% → 26.5%
- ML share
- 0.0% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —