Constituency
46. Kollengode
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-KOLLENGODE
CPM 55.2%won by 24.9%NCO 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.2% to 24.9%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 30.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
54,014
Margin
13,469
24.94%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1C. VASUDEVA MENONCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM29,82655.2%
- 2K. A. CHANDRANNCO · NCO16,35730.3%
- 3K. P. GANGA DHARANIndependent · IND4,4758.3%
- 4P. KOCHAPPANIndependent · IND3,3566.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–NCO swing
- −27.0%
- CPM share
- 51.9% → 55.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- — → —