Constituency
29. Tirur
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-TIRUR
ML 39.2%won by 7.8%CON 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedML held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.4% to 7.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCON (CON) finished second with 31.4% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.6% 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
46,860
Margin
3,670
7.83%
Candidates
5 contested · winner ML- 1K. MOIDEENKUTTY HAJIML · ML18,36639.2%
- 2M. PADMANABHAN NAIRCON · CON14,69631.4%
- 3T. ACHUTHAN NAMBUDIRICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM10,00821.4%
- 4P. GOPALANCommunist Party of India · CPI2,9236.2%
- 5K. AHMMED KUTTYIndependent · IND8671.9%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- ML
- Winner now
- ML
- ML–CON swing
- −55.4%
- ML share
- 63.2% → 39.2%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —