State board · Lok Sabha

Kerala Lok Sabha 1962

Results board · 18 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateKerala

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 18

Electors

80.03L

On the roll

Votes polled

56.46L

70.5% of electors

Median turnout

72.0%

Median of 18 seats

INC short

−4

Below majority · 6 − 10

[01]Seat matrix

18 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 10 of 18INC 6 · 4 short of majority

INC 633.3% Indian National Congress

CPI 633.3% Communist Party of India

IND 316.7% Independents

ML 211.1% Muslim League

RSP 15.6% Revolutionary Socialist Party

State level, as published

CPI 35.5%6 seats · 33.3%

INC 34.3%6 seats · 33.3%

PSP 9.9%0 seats

ML 4.5%2 seats · 11.1%

RSP 3.6%1 seat · 5.6%

Others 12.2%3 seats · 16.7%

Vote share not published

IND3 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

INC converted 34.3% of votes into 33.3% of seats, a seat deficit of 1.0 pp.
6 ÷ 18 = 33.3% · 33.3 − 34.3 = −1.0
PSP polled 9.9% of votes, the 3rd-highest share, but won 0 seats (0.0%).
0 ÷ 18 = 0.0% · 0.0 − 9.9 = −9.9
Kozhikode was decided by 763 votes, the closest of 18 seats; Kasergod had the widest margin, 83,363.
min / max of margin over 18 seats with a recorded margin
1 seat was won by a margin under 1%; ML won 1 of them.
count(margin % < 1.0) = 1 of 18 · ML 1
Turnout ran from 50.6% in Palghat to 80.4% in Mukundapuram; the median seat polled 72.0%.
min / median / max over 18 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

18 of 18 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 00.0% of seats

50–60 211.1% of seats

60–70 422.2% of seats

70–80 1161.1% of seats

≥ 80% 15.6% of seats

LowestPalghat50.6%
HighestMukundapuram80.4%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

18 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Kerala Lok Sabha 1962, all 18 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
131	KasergodWIDEST	A. K. Gopalan	Communist Party of India	3,08,449	83,363	27.0	67.0
132	Tellicherry	S. K. Pottekkatt	Independent	3,75,373	64,950	17.3	74.8
133	Badagara	A. V. Raghavan	Independent	3,43,312	72,907	21.2	74.1
134	KozhikodeCLOSEST	C. H. Muhammed Koya	Muslim League	3,12,672	763	0.2	72.0
135	Manjeri	Muhammad Ismail Sahib	Muslim League	2,47,891	4,328	1.7	57.4
136	PalghatSC	Kunhan Patinjara Veetilpadi	Communist Party of India	2,11,136	72,335	34.3	50.6
137	Poonani	Imbichi Bava Ezhukudikkal	Communist Party of India	2,63,593	57,799	21.9	64.1
138	Trichur	Krishna Warriar	Communist Party of India	3,32,642	5,827	1.8	75.9
139	Mukundapuram	Govinda Menon Panampilli	Indian National Congress	3,67,449	38,451	10.5	80.4
140	Ernakulam	A. M. Thomas	Indian National Congress	3,63,493	23,399	6.4	79.8
141	Muvattupuzha	Cherian	Indian National Congress	2,96,137	24,648	8.3	63.3
142	Kottayam	Mathew Maniyangadan	Indian National Congress	2,94,598	65,286	22.2	71.9
143	Ambalapuzha	P. K. Vasudevan Nair	Communist Party of India	3,34,846	11,233	3.4	75.1
144	Thiruvalla	G. Ravindra Varma	Indian National Congress	3,07,567	74,064	24.1	70.4
145	MavilekaraSC	Achuthan	Indian National Congress	3,07,516	7,288	2.4	72.7
146	Qullon	Sreekantan Nair	Revolutionary Socialist Party	3,39,363	64,955	19.1	76.8
147	Chirayinkil	M. K. Kumaran	Communist Party of India	3,11,762	33,219	10.7	71.3
148	Trivanduram	Nataraja Pillai	Independent	3,28,141	10,458	3.2	69.8

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 83,363 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1962 · Kerala · 18 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