Constituency
166. Thiruvananthapuram
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
IND 42.0%won by 3.8%PSP 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.7% to 3.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 38.2% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.2% of the vote between them, up from 64.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,09,120
Turnout
70.6%
Valid votes
2,88,976
Margin
10,944
3.79%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1EASWARA IYERIndependent · IND1,21,35042.0%
- 2THANU PILLAI APraja Socialist Party · PSP1,10,40638.2%
- 3C. R. DASIndian National Congress · INC38,47913.3%
- 4KUMARI ANNIE MASCRENEIndependent · IND18,7416.5%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–PSP swing
- −41.9%
- IND share
- 45.7% → 42.0%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- 71.5% → 70.6%