Constituency
111. Kottarakara
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-KOTTARAKARA
INC 50.1%won by 7.2%KEC 42.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 17.6% to 50.1% of the vote here (+32.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.4% — 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
64,943
Margin
4,677
7.20%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KOTTARA GOPALAKRISHNANIndian National Congress · INC32,53650.1%
- 2R. BALAKRISHNAN PILLAIKerala Congress · KEC27,85942.9%
- 3SAM CHARIYANIndependent · IND2,4983.8%
- 4S. THANKAPPANIndependent · IND1,4432.2%
- 5D. DAMODARAM POLLIIndependent · IND6070.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–KEC swing
- +29.4%
- INC share
- 17.6% → 50.1%
- KEC share
- 39.9% → 42.9%
- Turnout
- — → —