Constituency
53. Trichur
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-TRICHUR
CON 44.4%won by 8.2%CPIM 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to CON (CON), which now leads by 8.2%.
- CON vote shareCON went from 0.0% to 44.4% of the vote here (+44.4%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) finished second with 36.2% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.6% 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
51,303
Margin
4,205
8.20%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CON- 1T. P. SEETHARAMANCON · CON22,77744.4%
- 2C. L. VARKEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM18,57236.2%
- 3K. BALAKRISHNA MENONIndependent · IND6,36312.4%
- 4C. J. JOHNIndependent · IND1,7283.4%
- 5C. D. PAULIndependent · IND9441.8%
- 6T. A. DHARMARAJA IYERIndependent · IND9191.8%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CONflipped
- CON–CPIM swing
- +8.2%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 44.4%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- — → —