Constituency
127. Trivandrum I
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-TRIVANDRUM-I
PSP 51.9%won by 15.8%SOP 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 15.8%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 4.0% to 51.9% of the vote here (+47.9%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 36.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.0% between them, down from 96.0% — the field split more ways.
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
45,184
Margin
7,152
15.83%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1N. GOPALA PILLAIPraja Socialist Party · PSP23,45851.9%
- 2E. P. EAPENSOP · SOP16,30636.1%
- 3M. N. GOPINATHAN NAIRIndependent · IND3,7388.3%
- 4K. P. SANKARDASDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,6823.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–SOP swing
- +11.8%
- PSP share
- 4.0% → 51.9%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —