Constituency
86. Akalakunnam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-AKALAKUNNAM
KEC 55.6%won by 23.7%IND 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedKerala Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 23.7%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 31.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.5% of the vote between them, up from 81.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
44,058
Margin
10,460
23.74%
Candidates
3 contested · winner KEC- 1J. A. CHACKOKerala Congress · KEC24,50055.6%
- 2A. M. SOMANADHANIndependent · IND14,04031.9%
- 3T. K. KURUVILARashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP5,51812.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- KEC
- Winner now
- KEC
- KEC–IND swing
- −19.5%
- KEC share
- 43.2% → 55.6%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- — → —