Constituency
43. Palghat
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1967
KL-PALGHAT
CPM 54.1%won by 21.2%INC 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 21.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1965 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 54.1% of the vote here (+54.1%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 33.0% — it did not contest here in 1965.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.1% of the vote between them, up from 72.4% — 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
45,494
Margin
9,631
21.17%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1R.KRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM24,62754.1%
- 2K.SANKARANAYAYANANIndian National Congress · INC14,99633.0%
- 3O.RAJAGOPALANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,64910.2%
- 4A.R.RAJAGOPALANSwatantra Party · SWA1,2222.7%
Since 1965
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1965 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPIM
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +21.2%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 54.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —