Constituency
81. Vazhoor
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-VAZHOOR
KEC 44.5%won by 17.9%IND 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Kerala Congress (KEC), which now leads by 17.9%.
- KEC vote shareKEC went from 36.1% to 44.5% of the vote here (+8.4%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 26.6% — it polled just 1.1% in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.1% between them, down from 84.5% — 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
45,740
Margin
8,196
17.92%
Candidates
7 contested · winner KEC- 1K. NARAYANA KURUPKerala Congress · KEC20,35344.5%
- 2M. O. JOSEPHIndependent · IND12,15726.6%
- 3PURUSHOTHAMAN PILLAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,05324.2%
- 4VATTAPPARA STEPHENIndependent · IND1,2422.7%
- 5SREEDHARAN NARAYANANIndependent · IND4711.0%
- 6T. J. JOHNIndependent · IND3710.8%
- 7SREENIVASANIndependent · IND930.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- KECflipped
- KEC–IND swing
- −17.1%
- KEC share
- 36.1% → 44.5%
- IND share
- 1.1% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- — → —