Cochin Party

The Cochin Party was a political party in Cochin, India. The party was founded in 1949 by C.V. Iyyu, Kunhirama Menon and others.[1] Although the party had no links as such with the Cochin Praja Mandal, some of its leaders had been members of that group.[2] The party opposed integration of Cochin into a joint state with Travancore, and raised the slogan 'Cochin for Cochinites'.[1] It sought to maintain a separate Cochin state.[1][3] The party had a right-wing profile.[4]

The election symbol of the party was a flower.[5] The party presented twelve candidates in the 1951 Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election. In total the candidates of the party obtained 59,535 votes (1.75% of the votes in the state). One candidate of the party was elected, Ayyappan from the Wadankancherry constituency (which had two seats, the other being won by the Socialist Party).[6] The party fielded one candidate in the 1951 Lok Sabha election, Ephrahim Moovamby in the Crangannur seat. He obtained 8,947 votes (3.74% of the votes in the constituency).[7] By the 1954 elections the party had disappeared.[4]

References
  1. S. N. Sadasivan (2005). Political and Administrative Integration of Princely States. Mittal Publications. pp. 61–62. ISBN 978-81-7099-968-3.
  2. G. Gopa Kumar (1986). Regional political parties and state politics. Deep & Deep Publications. p. 113.
  3. University of Chicago. College (1957). Introduction to the civilization of India: emergence of India and Pakistan into the modern world. Syllabus Division, University of Chicago Press. p. 387.
  4. Ajoy Ghosh (1954). Miscellaneous writings: Communist Party of India, 1954-1956. p. 46.
  5. Shiv Lal (1978). Elections in India: an introduction. Election Archives. p. 48.
  6. Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF TRAVANCORE COCHIN
  7. Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1951 TO THE FIRST LOK SABHA - VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS) Archived October 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
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