Constituency
152. Ambalapuzha
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-AMBALAPUZHA
CPI 51.7%won by 3.4%PSP 48.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.3% to 3.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Praja Socialist Party (PSP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 93.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,45,802
Turnout
73.8%
Valid votes
3,29,107
Margin
11,233
3.41%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPI- 1P. K. VASUDEVAN NAIRCommunist Party of India · CPI1,70,17051.7%
- 2BABY JOHNPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,58,93748.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–PSP swing
- −41.9%
- CPI share
- 51.5% → 51.7%
- PSP share
- 6.2% → 48.3%
- Turnout
- 75.2% → 73.8%