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Constituency

12. Tellicherry

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Kerala Assembly Election, 1970

KL-TELLICHERRY

CPI 46.1%won by 2.4%IND 43.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 2.4%.

  • CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 46.1% of the vote here (+46.1%).
  • New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 43.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.8% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
61,091
Margin
1,460
2.39%

Candidates

3 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1N. E. BALARAMCommunist Party of India · CPI28,17146.1%
  2. 2T. KUNHANANDANIndependent · IND26,71143.7%
  3. 3K. GOPALAKRISHNANNCO · NCO6,20910.2%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPIIND swing
+2.4%
CPI share
0.0% 46.1%
IND share
0.0% 43.7%
Turnout