Constituency
170. Palghat
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-PALGHAT
CPM 57.1%won by 15.6%IND 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.2% to 15.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.6% of the vote between them, up from 93.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,64,890
Turnout
59.2%
Valid votes
3,34,513
Margin
52,266
15.62%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1A. K. GOPALANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,91,08957.1%
- 2T. C. GOVINDANIndependent · IND1,38,82341.5%
- 3V. P. PURSHOTHAMANIndependent · IND4,6011.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −36.6%
- CPM share
- 59.1% → 57.1%
- IND share
- 6.9% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- 57.4% → 59.2%