Constituency
84. Kottayam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1967
KL-KOTTAYAM
CPM 51.4%won by 18.5%INC 32.9%
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 18.5%.
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 51.4% of the vote here (+51.4%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 32.9% — it did not contest here in 1965.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.2% of the vote between them, up from 68.3% — 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
49,242
Margin
9,110
18.50%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1M . K . GEORGECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM25,29851.4%
- 2M . P. G . NAIRIndian National Congress · INC16,18832.9%
- 3T . RAJANKerala Congress · KEC7,29514.8%
- 4B . PATHROSEIndependent · IND4610.9%
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
- +18.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 51.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- — → —