Constituency
4. Nileswar
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-NILESWAR
CPM 54.2%won by 8.4%MUL 45.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 44.2% to 8.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerMUL (MUL) finished second with 45.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
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
64,067
Margin
5,371
8.38%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1V. V. KUNHAMBUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM34,71954.2%
- 2A. P. ABDULLAMUL · MUL29,34845.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–MUL swing
- −62.3%
- CPM share
- 70.6% → 54.2%
- MUL share
- 0.0% → 45.8%
- Turnout
- — → —