Constituency
45. Ottapalam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1977
KL-OTTAPALAM
INC 56.2%won by 12.4%CPM 43.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 43.6% to 56.2% of the vote here (+12.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 92.2% — 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
55,057
Margin
6,817
12.38%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1P. BALANIndian National Congress · INC30,93756.2%
- 2K. P. UNNICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM24,12043.8%
Since 1970
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +17.3%
- INC share
- 43.6% → 56.2%
- CPM share
- 48.6% → 43.8%
- Turnout
- — → —