Constituency
177. Ambalapuzha
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-AMBALAPUZHA
RSP 52.7%won by 6.4%CPM 46.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 6.4%.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 0.0% to 52.7% of the vote here (+52.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.0% of the vote between them, up from 85.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,27,204
Turnout
76.9%
Valid votes
4,05,239
Margin
25,918
6.40%
Candidates
3 contested · winner RSP- 1K. BALAKRISHNANRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP2,13,48752.7%
- 2SUSEELA GOPALANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,87,56946.3%
- 3OMANA PILLAIndependent · IND4,1831.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–CPM swing
- +55.9%
- RSP share
- 0.0% → 52.7%
- CPM share
- 49.5% → 46.3%
- Turnout
- 77.8% → 76.9%