Constituency
98. Kayamkulam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-KAYAMKULAM
CPIM 33.5%won by 0.7%CON 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 0.7%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 33.5% of the vote here (+33.5%).
- New challengerCON (CON) finished second with 32.8% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.3% 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
52,349
Margin
343
0.66%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPIM- 1SUKUMARANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM17,52233.5%
- 2PRABHAKARANCON · CON17,17932.8%
- 3K. K. MUHAMMEDKerala Congress (Jacob) · KC15,51929.6%
- 4N. S. P PANICKERIndependent · IND1,1982.3%
- 5P. J VARGHESEIndependent · IND9311.8%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–CON swing
- +0.7%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 33.5%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- — → —