Constituency
49. Chelakara
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-CHELAKARA
INC 49.1%won by 4.5%CPM 44.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 45.6% to 49.1% of the vote here (+3.4%).
- Multi-cornered3 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
51,500
Margin
2,306
4.48%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1K. K. BALAKRISHANIndian National Congress · INC25,27049.1%
- 2K. S. SANKARANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM22,96444.6%
- 3M. K. KUNJUMONNCO · NCO3,2666.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +9.4%
- INC share
- 45.6% → 49.1%
- CPM share
- 50.5% → 44.6%
- Turnout
- — → —