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Kerala Lok Sabha 1957

Results board · 16 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateKerala
Seats
16
Constituencies
Majority
9
Seats needed of 16
Electors
75.15L
On the roll
Votes polled
60.50L
80.5% of electors
Median turnout
69.4%
Median of 16 seats
CPI short
−1
Below majority · 8 − 9

[01]Seat matrix

16 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 16 seats: CPI 8, INC 5, IND 2, PSP 1. Majority line at 9 seats. Hemicycle of 16 seats: CPI 8, INC 5, IND 2, PSP 1. Majority line at 9 seats.
Majority · 9 of 16CPI 8 · 1 short of majority
CPI 850.0% Communist Party of India
INC 531.3% Indian National Congress
IND 212.5% Independents
PSP 16.3% Praja Socialist Party

[02]Vote share

State level, as published
CPI 37.5%8 seats · 50.0%
INC 34.8%5 seats · 31.3%
PSP 7.2%1 seat · 6.3%
RSP 5.1%0 seats
Others 15.4%2 seats · 12.5%

Vote share not published

  • IND2 seats

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. CPI converted 37.5% of votes into 50.0% of seats, a seat premium of 12.5 pp.

    8 ÷ 16 = 50.0% · 50.0 − 37.5 = +12.5

  2. RSP polled 5.1% of votes, the 4th-highest share, but won 0 seats (0.0%).

    0 ÷ 16 = 0.0% · 0.0 − 5.1 = −5.1

  3. Turnout ran from 53.9% in Palghat to 75.7% in Kottayam; the median seat polled 69.4%.

    min / median / max over 16 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

16 of 16 seats carry a turnout
025507510069.4%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 00.0% of seats
50–60 425.0% of seats
60–70 425.0% of seats
70–80 850.0% of seats
≥ 80% 00.0% of seats
  • LowestPalghat53.9%
  • HighestKottayam75.7%
  • NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

16 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, Kerala Lok Sabha 1957, all 16 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
149 Trivandrum Easwara Iyer Independent 2,88,976 not recorded not recorded 70.6
150 Chirayinkil Kumaran Communist Party of India 2,68,222 not recorded not recorded 68.6
151 Quilon Kodiyan (S. C. ) Communist Party of India 12,03,754 not recorded not recorded 75.1
152 Ambalapuzha Punnoose, P. T. Communist Party of India 3,24,471 not recorded not recorded 75.2
153 Thiruvalla Vasudevan Nair P. K. Communist Party of India 3,00,891 not recorded not recorded 73.9
154 Kottayam Mathew Maniyangadan Indian National Congress 2,87,074 not recorded not recorded 75.7
155 Muvattupuzha George Thomas Indian National Congress 2,42,844 not recorded not recorded 62.4
156 Ernakulam Thomas ( ALUNGAL ) Indian National Congress 2,94,600 not recorded not recorded 70.6
157 Mukundapuram Narayanankutty Menon Communist Party of India 3,05,569 not recorded not recorded 74.9
158 Trichur Krishnan Communist Party of India 2,80,441 not recorded not recorded 70.2
159 Palghat Kunhan P. Communist Party of India 9,10,729 not recorded not recorded 53.9
160 Kozhikode Kuttikrishnan Nair Indian National Congress 2,68,664 not recorded not recorded 59.3
161 Manjeri Pocker Kuttivatha Independent 2,29,402 not recorded not recorded 54.8
162 Badagara Menon K. B. Praja Socialist Party 2,95,682 not recorded not recorded 66.1
163 Tellicherry M. K. Jinachandran Indian National Congress 2,96,394 not recorded not recorded 63.3
164 Kasergod Gopalan Ayillath Kuttieri Communist Party of India 2,52,533 not recorded not recorded 56.2
No seat carries a margin“not recorded”: the source carries no figure for that seat

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1957 · Kerala · 16 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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