Constituency
120. Varkala
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1965
KL-VARKALA
CON 47.7%won by 19.7%CPIM 28.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to CON (CON), which now leads by 19.7%.
- CON vote shareCON went from 0.0% to 47.7% of the vote here (+47.7%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) finished second with 28.0% — it did not contest here in 1960.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.7% of the vote between them, up from 49.8% — 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
44,243
Margin
8,711
19.69%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CON- 1K. SHAHUL HAMEEDCON · CON21,09247.7%
- 2V. RADHAKRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM12,38128.0%
- 3ABDUL MAJEEDCommunist Party of India · CPI10,77024.3%
Since 1960
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CONflipped
- CON–CPIM swing
- +19.7%
- CON share
- 0.0% → 47.7%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 28.0%
- Turnout
- — → —