Constituency

176. Kottayam

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971

IN-KOTTAYAM

KEC 51.1%won by 7.9%IND 43.2%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Kerala Congress (KEC), which now leads by 7.9%.

KEC vote shareKEC went from 26.4% to 51.1% of the vote here (+24.7%).
New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 43.2% — it polled just 1.2% in 1967.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.3% of the vote between them, up from 72.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
TurnoutTurnout fell 11.9% to 66.8%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

4,91,252

Turnout

66.8%

Valid votes

3,28,170

Margin

26,015

7.93%