Constituency
83. Devicolam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1977
KL-DEVICOLAM
INC 49.0%won by 15.0%CPM 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.8% to 49.0% of the vote here (+20.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.9% of the vote between them, up from 64.6% — 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
55,814
Margin
8,399
15.05%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1KITTAPPANARAYANASWAMYIndian National Congress · INC27,34849.0%
- 2G. VARADANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,94934.0%
- 3N. GANPATHYIndependent · IND8,38815.0%
- 4AMAVASI CHUPLANIndependent · IND8001.4%
- 5C. B. RAMAKRISHNANIndependent · IND2370.4%
- 6S. VELAYUDHANIndependent · IND920.2%
Since 1970
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +22.0%
- INC share
- 28.8% → 49.0%
- CPM share
- 35.8% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —