Constituency
100. Alleppey
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1977
KL-ALLEPPEY
CPI 57.9%won by 15.9%BLD 42.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.0% to 15.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerBLD (BLD) finished second with 42.1% — it did not contest here in 1970.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 88.8% — 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
60,932
Margin
9,670
15.87%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPI- 1P. K. VASUDEVAN NAIRCommunist Party of India · CPI35,30157.9%
- 2JOSEPH MATAHNBLD · BLD25,63142.1%
Since 1970
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BLD swing
- −37.0%
- CPI share
- 52.9% → 57.9%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 42.1%
- Turnout
- — → —