Constituency
50. Chittur
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1977
KL-CHITTUR
CPI 51.3%won by 13.5%BLD 37.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: SOP (SOP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 13.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 51.3% of the vote here (+51.3%).
- New challengerBLD (BLD) finished second with 37.7% — it did not contest here in 1970.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.0% of the vote between them, up from 66.8% — 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
55,970
Margin
7,577
13.54%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1P. SANKARCommunist Party of India · CPI28,69851.3%
- 2K. A. SIVARAMA BHARATHYBLD · BLD21,12137.7%
- 3AMBAT SEKHARA MENONIndependent · IND3,1105.6%
- 4MAMBULLY RAGHAVANIndependent · IND1,7013.0%
- 5S. M. ANTHONY SWAMYIndependent · IND9411.7%
- 6MANIKETH KRISHNA MENONIndependent · IND3990.7%
Since 1970
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- SOP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–BLD swing
- +13.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 51.3%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 37.7%
- Turnout
- — → —