Constituency
73. Kothamangalam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-KOTHAMANGALAM
IND 38.7%won by 2.2%CPM 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 2.2%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 1.3% to 38.7% of the vote here (+37.4%).
- 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
59,228
Margin
1,327
2.24%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1M. I. MANKOSEIndependent · IND22,93038.7%
- 2T. M. MEETHIANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM21,60336.5%
- 3K. MATHEWIndependent · IND14,69524.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPM swing
- +42.3%
- IND share
- 1.3% → 38.7%
- CPM share
- 41.4% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- — → —