Constituency
79. Palghat
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-PALGHAT
INC 51.7%won by 3.4%CPI 48.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 3.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.8% — 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
51,334
Margin
1,758
3.42%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1R. RANGHAVA MENONIndian National Congress · INC26,54651.7%
- 2K. C. GOPALANUNNICommunist Party of India · CPI24,78848.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +1.6%
- INC share
- 42.3% → 51.7%
- CPI share
- 40.5% → 48.3%
- Turnout
- — → —