Constituency
164. Kasargod
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-KASARGOD
INC 46.0%won by 6.9%CPM 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.2% to 46.0% of the vote here (+19.8%).
- 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
5,79,127
Turnout
71.2%
Valid votes
4,12,062
Margin
28,404
6.89%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RAMACHANDRAN KADANNAPPALLIIndian National Congress · INC1,89,48646.0%
- 2E. K. NAYANARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,61,08239.1%
- 3U. ISHWARA BHATBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS43,56410.6%
- 4PATTATHIL RAGHAVAHIndependent · IND17,9304.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +42.2%
- INC share
- 26.2% → 46.0%
- CPM share
- 61.5% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- 71.9% → 71.2%