Constituency
2. Kasargod
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-KASARGOD
IND 45.3%won by 14.0%IND 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.2% to 14.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.5% between them, down from 89.7% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
59,911
Margin
8,377
13.98%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1B. M. ABDUL RAHIMANIndependent · IND27,11345.3%
- 2K. P. BALLAKURAYAIndependent · IND18,73631.3%
- 3N. RAMANNA RAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,06223.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–IND swing
- 0.0%
- IND share
- 45.0% → 45.3%
- IND share
- 45.0% → 45.3%
- Turnout
- — → —