Constituency
106. Pathanamthitta
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-PATHANAMTHITTA
IND 41.8%won by 1.2%KEC 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.9% to 1.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
61,374
Margin
727
1.18%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1K. K. NAIRIndependent · IND25,63541.8%
- 2VAYALA IDICULAKerala Congress · KEC24,90840.6%
- 3PUNNIKRISHNAN NAIRIndian National Congress · INC10,83117.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–KEC swing
- −17.7%
- IND share
- 49.2% → 41.8%
- KEC share
- 30.3% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —