Constituency
204. Ponnani
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-PONNANI
MUL 63.9%won by 27.9%MLO 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to MUL (MUL), which now leads by 27.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- MUL vote shareMUL went from 0.0% to 63.9% of the vote here (+63.9%).
- New challengerMLO (MLO) finished second with 36.1% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 94.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 17.3% to 73.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,73,502
Turnout
73.5%
Valid votes
4,21,436
Margin
1,17,546
27.89%
Candidates
2 contested · winner MUL- 1G. M. BANATWALAMUL · MUL2,69,49163.9%
- 2M. MOIDEEN KUTTY HAJIMLO · MLO1,51,94536.1%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- MULflipped
- MUL–MLO swing
- +27.9%
- MUL share
- 0.0% → 63.9%
- MLO share
- 0.0% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- 56.2% → 73.5%