Constituency
84. Kottayam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-KOTTAYAM
CPIM 37.8%won by 7.4%CON 30.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 7.4%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 37.8% of the vote here (+37.8%).
- New challengerCON (CON) finished second with 30.5% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.3% between them, down from 99.7% — 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
47,261
Margin
3,484
7.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPIM- 1M. K. GEORGECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM17,88037.8%
- 2M. P. GOVINDAN NAIRCON · CON14,39630.5%
- 3T. K. GOPALAKRISHNA PANICKERKerala Congress (Jacob) · KC13,28028.1%
- 4P. BHASKARAN NAIRCommunist Party of India · CPI1,7053.6%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–CON swing
- +7.4%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 37.8%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- — → —