Constituency
14. North Wynad
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-NORTH-WYNAD
INC 54.2%won by 21.5%IND 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 21.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.8% to 54.2% of the vote here (+11.4%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.0% 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
48,504
Margin
10,413
21.47%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1M. V. RAJANIndian National Congress · INC26,30154.2%
- 2M. KARIYANIndependent · IND15,88832.8%
- 3PUTHUSSERY VIJAYANKerala Congress · KEC3,2866.8%
- 4A. CHAPPANIndependent · IND1,8003.7%
- 5K. V. KOLUIndependent · IND1,2292.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −21.4%
- INC share
- 42.8% → 54.2%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- — → —