Constituency
42. Mannarghat
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-MANNARGHAT
CPM 49.1%won by 8.0%CPI 41.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.9% to 8.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 41.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
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
48,105
Margin
3,831
7.96%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1JOHN MANFORANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM23,63349.1%
- 2KRISHNANCommunist Party of India · CPI19,80241.2%
- 3NECHULLI BALANNCO · NCO3,2546.8%
- 4P. A. SANKARANIndependent · IND1,4162.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–CPI swing
- −57.3%
- CPM share
- 65.2% → 49.1%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 41.2%
- Turnout
- — → —