Constituency
49. Palghat
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1977
KL-PALGHAT
IND 50.0%won by 4.6%CPM 45.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 4.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 30.9% to 50.0% of the vote here (+19.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.4% of the vote between them, up from 71.4% — 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
60,315
Margin
2,803
4.65%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1C. M. SUNDARAMIndependent · IND30,16050.0%
- 2R. KRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM27,35745.4%
- 3V. P. PURASHOTHAMANIndependent · IND1,1211.9%
- 4K. A. PRABHAKARANIndependent · IND9381.6%
- 5JOSEPAULIndependent · IND7391.2%
Since 1970
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPM swing
- +14.2%
- IND share
- 30.9% → 50.0%
- CPM share
- 40.5% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → —