Constituency
66. Mattancherry
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-MATTANCHERRY
IND 49.6%won by 17.9%CON 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 17.9%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 35.5% to 49.6% of the vote here (+14.2%).
- New challengerCON (CON) finished second with 31.7% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.4% between them, down from 99.0% — 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
50,244
Margin
8,982
17.88%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1M. P. MUHAMED JAFERKHANIndependent · IND24,93349.6%
- 2K. K. VISHWANATHANCON · CON15,95131.7%
- 3T. M. ABOOCommunist Party of India · CPI4,5579.1%
- 4N. P. LALANIndependent · IND2,0084.0%
- 5V. K. PRABHAKARA MENONIndependent · IND1,3022.6%
- 6P. R. MATHEWIndependent · IND1,1452.3%
- 7B. MANEKJI KHONAIndependent · IND3480.7%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CON swing
- −17.6%
- IND share
- 35.5% → 49.6%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —