Constituency
24. Calicut I
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-CALICUT-I
INC 46.8%won by 5.8%IND 40.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.8%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 40.9% — it polled just 0.5% in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.7% between them, down from 96.7% — 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
65,038
Margin
3,797
5.84%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1P. V. SANKANA NARAYANANIndian National Congress · INC30,41646.8%
- 2THAY T. SANKARANIndependent · IND26,61940.9%
- 3M. KAMALAMNCO · NCO8,00312.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −37.9%
- INC share
- 44.3% → 46.8%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 40.9%
- Turnout
- — → —