Constituency
51. Kunnamkulam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-KUNNAMKULAM
CPIM 46.7%won by 1.9%CON 44.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 1.9%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 46.7% of the vote here (+46.7%).
- New challengerCON (CON) finished second with 44.8% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.5% between them, down from 99.6% — 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
56,631
Margin
1,094
1.93%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPIM- 1T. K. KRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM26,44846.7%
- 2M. K. RAJACON · CON25,35444.8%
- 3P. L. JOSEIndependent · IND2,6744.7%
- 4K. N. KARUNAKARANCommunist Party of India · CPI2,1553.8%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–CON swing
- +1.9%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 46.7%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 44.8%
- Turnout
- — → —