Constituency
12. Tellicherry
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-TELLICHERRY
CPI 46.1%won by 2.4%IND 43.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
61,091
Margin
1,460
2.39%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1N. E. BALARAMCommunist Party of India · CPI28,17146.1%
- 2T. KUNHANANDANIndependent · IND26,71143.7%
- 3K. GOPALAKRISHNANNCO · NCO6,20910.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–IND swing
- +2.4%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 46.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 43.7%
- Turnout
- — → —