Constituency
92. Sherthala
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-SHERTHALA
KC 31.4%won by 3.9%CON 27.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Kerala Congress (Jacob) (KC), which now leads by 3.9%.
- KC vote shareKC went from 0.0% to 31.4% of the vote here (+31.4%).
- New challengerCON (CON) finished second with 27.5% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.9% 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
48,003
Margin
1,878
3.91%
Candidates
4 contested · winner KC- 1C. V. JACOBKerala Congress (Jacob) · KC15,07031.4%
- 2P. S. KARTHIKEYANCON · CON13,19227.5%
- 3N. PRABHAKARA THANDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM11,95224.9%
- 4K. R. SWAMINATHANCommunist Party of India · CPI7,78916.2%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- KCflipped
- KC–CON swing
- +3.9%
- KC share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 27.5%
- Turnout
- — → —