Constituency
66. Nattika
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1977
KL-NATTIKA
CPI 56.6%won by 14.1%BLD 42.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: SOP (SOP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 14.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 42.4% to 56.6% of the vote here (+14.2%).
- New challengerBLD (BLD) finished second with 42.5% — it did not contest here in 1970.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.0% of the vote between them, up from 87.6% — 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
58,198
Margin
8,206
14.10%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1P. K. GOPALAKRISHNANCommunist Party of India · CPI32,91756.6%
- 2V. K. GOPINATHANBLD · BLD24,71142.5%
- 3K. V. VISWAMBARANIndependent · IND5701.0%
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
- −28.3%
- CPI share
- 42.4% → 56.6%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 42.5%
- Turnout
- — → —