Election
Constituency

82. Perintalmanna

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Kerala Assembly Election, 1960

KL-PERINTALMANNA

CPI 55.0%won by 10.0%ML 45.0%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.6% to 10.0%.

  • New challengerML (ML) finished second with 45.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 74.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
45,205
Margin
4,527
10.01%

Candidates

2 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1E. P. GOPALANCommunist Party of India · CPI24,86655.0%
  2. 2MOIDEENKUTTY MELEVOSTTIML · ML20,33945.0%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPIML swing
−33.4%
CPI share
43.4% 55.0%
ML share
0.0% 45.0%
Turnout