Constituency
90. Vaikom
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1967
KL-VAIKOM
CPI 54.8%won by 18.2%INC 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: CON (CON) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 18.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1965 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 28.5% to 54.8% of the vote here (+26.4%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 36.6% — it did not contest here in 1965.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.5% of the vote between them, up from 57.8% — 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
51,972
Margin
9,459
18.20%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1P . S . SRINIVASANCommunist Party of India · CPI28,50254.8%
- 2P . PARAMESWARANIndian National Congress · INC19,04336.6%
- 3V . N . PILLAIKerala Congress · KEC4,4278.5%
Since 1965
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1965 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CON
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- −10.3%
- CPI share
- 28.5% → 54.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 36.6%
- Turnout
- — → —