Constituency
109. Punaloor
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1967
KL-PUNALOOR
CPI 52.6%won by 11.3%INC 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: CON (CON) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 11.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1965 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 29.9% to 52.6% of the vote here (+22.7%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 41.3% — it did not contest here in 1965.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.9% of the vote between them, up from 61.5% — 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
45,491
Margin
5,137
11.29%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1M . N . G . NAIRCommunist Party of India · CPI23,93152.6%
- 2P . C . BABYIndian National Congress · INC18,79441.3%
- 3P . M . SAMUELKerala Congress · KEC2,1584.7%
- 4P . R . PILLAIIndependent · IND4240.9%
- 5P . GOPINATHANIndependent · IND1840.4%
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
- −18.6%
- CPI share
- 29.9% → 52.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- — → —