Constituency
81. Mannarghat
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1960
KL-MANNARGHAT
CPI 55.9%won by 13.5%PSP 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.3% to 13.5%.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 42.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 76.1% — 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
44,858
Margin
6,061
13.51%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1KRISHNAN KONGASERICommunist Party of India · CPI25,06055.9%
- 2M. P. GOVINDA MENONPraja Socialist Party · PSP18,99942.4%
- 3RANGANIndependent · IND7991.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–PSP swing
- −30.7%
- CPI share
- 44.2% → 55.9%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- — → —