Constituency
8. Taliparamba
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1977
KL-TALIPARAMBA
CPM 49.9%won by 2.1%IND 47.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 2.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 42.7% to 49.9% of the vote here (+7.2%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.7% of the vote between them, up from 86.6% — 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
73,824
Margin
1,525
2.07%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1M. V. RAGHAVANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM36,82949.9%
- 2K. NARAYANAN NAMBIARIndependent · IND35,30447.8%
- 3K. P. R. GOPALANIndependent · IND1,0411.4%
- 4KAYARALAVAN NARAYANANIndependent · IND4050.5%
- 5PATTATHIL RAGHAVANIndependent · IND1670.2%
- 6K. P. V. PARAMESHWARA NAMBOODIRIIndependent · IND780.1%
Since 1970
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- −34.8%
- CPM share
- 42.7% → 49.9%
- IND share
- 5.8% → 47.8%
- Turnout
- — → —