Constituency
85. Udumbanchola
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1977
KL-UDUMBANCHOLA
KEC 50.2%won by 14.2%CPM 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedKerala Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.3% to 14.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.1% of the vote between them, up from 65.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
57,960
Margin
8,240
14.22%
Candidates
10 contested · winner KEC- 1THOMAS JOSEPHKerala Congress · KEC29,08350.2%
- 2M. GINADEVANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,84336.0%
- 3NARAYANAN KOCHUKUNJUIndependent · IND4,2897.4%
- 4JOSEPH THOMASIndependent · IND1,0911.9%
- 5PHILLIP CHACKOAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,0201.8%
- 6MANUEL SUBBAYYANIndependent · IND9321.6%
- 7MARTHAI PHILLIPOSEIndependent · IND3320.6%
- 8P. V. SHREEDHARANIndependent · IND1340.2%
- 9LAZER LONANIndependent · IND1270.2%
- 10M. R. SUKUMARAN NAIRIndependent · IND1090.2%
Since 1970
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- KEC
- Winner now
- KEC
- KEC–CPM swing
- +5.9%
- KEC share
- 36.7% → 50.2%
- CPM share
- 28.4% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- — → —