Constituency
77. Chittur
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-CHITTUR
CPI 27.4%won by 0.0%CPI 27.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.7% to 0.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 54.8% of the vote between them, up from 41.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 85 votes (0.05%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,76,050
Margin
85
0.05%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1P. BALACHANDRA MENONCommunist Party of India · CPI48,24127.4%
- 2NARAYANAN THANDANCommunist Party of India · CPI48,15627.4%
- 3BACHARANIndian National Congress · INC40,02822.7%
- 4SIVARAMA BHARATHIPraja Socialist Party · PSP39,62522.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPI swing
- 0.0%
- CPI share
- 21.6% → 27.4%
- CPI share
- 21.6% → 27.4%
- Turnout
- — → —