Constituency
77. Devicolam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-DEVICOLAM
CPIM 41.5%won by 2.5%CON 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 2.5%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 41.5% of the vote here (+41.5%).
- New challengerCON (CON) finished second with 39.0% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.4% of the vote between them, up from 49.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
39,726
Margin
989
2.49%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPIM- 1G. VARATHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM16,47241.5%
- 2T. MURUKESANCON · CON15,48339.0%
- 3S. G. DEVIAPPANKerala Congress (Jacob) · KC3,6839.3%
- 4K. K. KUNJANIndependent · IND3,6569.2%
- 5M. M. SUNDARAMIndependent · IND4321.1%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–CON swing
- +2.5%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 41.5%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- — → —