Constituency
12. Tellicherry
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-TELLICHERRY
CPIM 50.8%won by 14.9%CON 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 14.9%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 50.8% of the vote here (+50.8%).
- New challengerCON (CON) finished second with 35.9% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
55,045
Margin
8,215
14.92%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPIM- 1P. GOPALANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM27,98150.8%
- 2P. NANUCON · CON19,76635.9%
- 3V.R. KRISHNA IYERIndependent · IND7,29813.3%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–CON swing
- +14.9%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 50.8%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- — → —