Constituency
50. Wadakkancherry
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-WADAKKANCHERRY
CPM 47.1%won by 3.5%PSP 43.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 3.5%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 47.1% of the vote here (+47.1%).
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 43.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.6% between them, down from 95.7% — 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
57,525
Margin
1,999
3.48%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1A. S. N. NAMBISANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM27,06647.1%
- 2N. K. SESHANPraja Socialist Party · PSP25,06743.6%
- 3THOMASNCO · NCO4,5958.0%
- 4VELAYUDHANIndependent · IND7971.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–PSP swing
- +3.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 47.1%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 43.6%
- Turnout
- — → —