Constituency
8. Payyannur
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-PAYYANNUR
CPM 52.2%won by 12.2%INC 39.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.0% to 12.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
62,287
Margin
7,621
12.24%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1A. V. KUNHAMBUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM32,49952.2%
- 2V. P. NARAYANA PODUVALIndian National Congress · INC24,87839.9%
- 3T. T. JOSEPHIndependent · IND4,9107.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −19.8%
- CPM share
- 63.5% → 52.2%
- INC share
- 31.4% → 39.9%
- Turnout
- — → —