Constituency
95. Ambalapuzha
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-AMBALAPUZHA
CPM 49.0%won by 4.7%RSP 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.9% to 4.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerRashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) finished second with 44.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.3% of the vote between them, up from 86.9% — 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
58,338
Margin
2,768
4.74%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–RSP swing
- −48.2%
- CPM share
- 52.9% → 49.0%
- RSP share
- 0.0% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —