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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]

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  2. ↑ G. Gopa Kumar (1986). Regional political parties and state politics. Deep & Deep Publications. p. 113. ISBN   9780836419108.
  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. 1 2 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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