Constituency
168. Manjeri
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-MANJERI
MUL 67.6%won by 47.2%IND 20.4%
What changed here
DerivedMUL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 37.1% to 47.2%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 20.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.0% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 18.7% to 45.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,60,669
Turnout
45.3%
Valid votes
2,53,690
Margin
1,19,837
47.24%
Candidates
3 contested · winner MUL- 1MUHAMMAD ISMAIL SAHIBMUL · MUL1,71,49667.6%
- 2S. P. MUHAMMED ALIIndependent · IND51,65920.4%
- 3K. K. RADHAKRISHNANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS30,53512.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- MUL
- Winner now
- MUL
- MUL–IND swing
- −21.3%
- MUL share
- 68.5% → 67.6%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 20.4%
- Turnout
- 63.9% → 45.3%