Constituency
108. Pathanapuram
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-PATHANAPURAM
CPI 54.3%won by 16.9%CPM 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.6% to 16.9%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 37.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.8% of the vote between them, up from 84.2% — 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
45,398
Margin
7,652
16.86%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1P. K. RAGHAVACommunist Party of India · CPI24,65454.3%
- 2P. K. KUNJACHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,00237.5%
- 3K. NARAYANANIndependent · IND3,2607.2%
- 4P. T. NANUIndependent · IND4821.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–CPM swing
- −39.6%
- CPI share
- 56.4% → 54.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- — → —