Constituency
121. Karunagapally
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1977
KL-KARUNAGAPALLY
CPI 47.8%won by 8.8%CPM 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 8.8%.
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 47.8% of the vote here (+47.8%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 39.0% — it did not contest here in 1970.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.8% between them, down from 95.5% — the field split more ways.
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
62,211
Margin
5,484
8.82%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1P.M. SHERIFFCommunist Party of India · CPI29,73947.8%
- 2C.P. KARUNNAKARAN PILLAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM24,25539.0%
- 3T.V. GOPIIndependent · IND8,21713.2%
Since 1970
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1970 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +8.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 47.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- — → —