Constituency
84. Kottayam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-KOTTAYAM
CPM 49.8%won by 22.8%NCO 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.5% to 22.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.8% between them, down from 84.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
52,494
Margin
11,957
22.78%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1M. THOMASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM26,14749.8%
- 2K. GEORGE THOMASNCO · NCO14,19027.0%
- 3T. K. GOPALAKRISHNA PANICKERIndian National Congress · INC11,42221.8%
- 4T. K. KOCHOLA KUMARIndependent · IND5121.0%
- 5SUBHADRAMMA SUKUMARANIndependent · IND2230.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–NCO swing
- −28.6%
- CPM share
- 51.4% → 49.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- — → —