Constituency
166. Badagara
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BADAGARA
INC 52.9%won by 15.4%IND 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.8% to 52.9% of the vote here (+18.1%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 37.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.4% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.0% to 66.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,66,738
Turnout
66.4%
Valid votes
3,76,203
Margin
57,804
15.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1K. P. UNNIKRISHNANIndian National Congress · INC1,98,93952.9%
- 2A. V. RAGHAVANIndependent · IND1,41,13537.5%
- 3ARANGIL SREEDHARANIndia Suyarajya Party · ISP33,8939.0%
- 4LEELA DAMODARA MENONIndependent · IND2,2360.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −19.4%
- INC share
- 34.8% → 52.9%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- 71.4% → 66.4%