Constituency
165. Tellicherry
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-TELLICHERRY
CPI 51.4%won by 10.0%CPM 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 10.0%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 51.4% of the vote here (+51.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.8% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.8% to 70.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,62,923
Turnout
70.7%
Valid votes
3,97,743
Margin
39,824
10.01%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1C. K. CHANDRAPPANCommunist Party of India · CPI2,04,48351.4%
- 2PATTIAM GOPALANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,64,65941.4%
- 3N. RAGHAVANNCO · NCO24,3656.1%
- 4K. K. KUNHABDULLA HAJIIndependent · IND4,2361.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–CPM swing
- +71.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 51.4%
- CPM share
- 61.8% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- 75.4% → 70.7%