Constituency
43. Palghat
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-PALGHAT
CPIM 41.5%won by 10.5%CON 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 10.5%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 41.5% of the vote here (+41.5%).
- New challengerCON (CON) finished second with 31.0% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.4% 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
42,804
Margin
4,487
10.48%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPIM- 1M.V. VASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM17,74741.5%
- 2K. PYARIJAN SUNNA SAHIBCON · CON13,26031.0%
- 3P.K. KRISHNASWAMYIndependent · IND5,27912.3%
- 4O. RAJAGOPALANIndependent · IND2,8796.7%
- 5K.C. GOPALANUNNICommunist Party of India · CPI2,2515.3%
- 6R.G. NARYANA IYERIndependent · IND1,3883.2%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–CON swing
- +10.5%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 41.5%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- — → —