Constituency
78. Udumbanchola
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1967
KL-UDUMBANCHOLA
CPI 52.7%won by 17.0%KEC 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.8% to 17.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1965 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerKerala Congress (KEC) finished second with 35.7% — it did not contest here in 1965.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.4% of the vote between them, up from 71.2% — 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
53,261
Margin
9,064
17.02%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1K . T . JACOBCommunist Party of India · CPI28,08552.7%
- 2MATHACHANKerala Congress · KEC19,02135.7%
- 3K . S . CHITTOORIndian National Congress · INC5,85311.0%
- 4C . K . GOVINDANIndependent · IND3020.6%
Since 1965
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1965 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–KEC swing
- −20.5%
- CPI share
- 37.5% → 52.7%
- KEC share
- 0.0% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- — → —