Constituency
88. Palai
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-PALAI
KEC 41.4%won by 0.6%INC 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedKerala Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.5% to 0.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.1% of the vote between them, up from 72.5% — 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
56,469
Margin
364
0.64%
Candidates
4 contested · winner KEC- 1K. M. MANIKerala Congress · KEC23,35041.4%
- 2M. M. JACOBIndian National Congress · INC22,98640.7%
- 3T. P. ULAHANNANIndependent · IND9,09216.1%
- 4KUTTAPPANIndependent · IND1,0411.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- KEC
- Winner now
- KEC
- KEC–INC swing
- −10.8%
- KEC share
- 39.0% → 41.4%
- INC share
- 27.5% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- — → —