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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.<ref name="Sadasivan2005">{{cite book|author=S. N. Sadasivan|title=Political and Administrative Integration of Princely States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kWptYbzpXE8C&pg=PA61|year=2005|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-968-3|pages=61–62}}</ref> Although the party had no links as such with the Cochin Praja Mandal, some of its leaders had been members of that group.<ref name="Kumar1986">{{cite book|author=G. Gopa Kumar|title=Regional political parties and state politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wuuJAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Deep & Deep Publications|page=113|isbn=9780836419108}}</ref> The party opposed integration of Cochin into a joint state with [[Travancore]], and raised the slogan 'Cochin for Cochinites'.<ref name="Sadasivan2005"/> It sought to maintain a separate Cochin state.<ref name="Sadasivan2005"/><ref name="College1957">{{cite book|author=University of Chicago. College|title=Introduction to the civilization of India: emergence of India and Pakistan into the modern world|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6so6AAAAIAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Syllabus Division, University of Chicago Press|page=387}}</ref> The party had a right-wing profile.<ref name="Ghosh1954"/><br />
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The election symbol of the party was a flower.<ref name="Lal1978">{{cite book|author=Shiv Lal|title=Elections in India: an introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hSFbAAAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Election Archives|page=48}}</ref> 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, [[C.C. Ayyappan|Ayyappan]] from the Wadankancherry constituency (which had two seats, the other being won by the [[Socialist Party (India, 1948)|Socialist Party]]).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_TRAV-COCH.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF TRAVANCORE COCHIN]''</ref> The party fielded one candidate in the [[1951 Indian general election|1951 Lok Sabha election]], Ephrahim Moovamby in the Crangannur seat. He obtained 8,947 votes (3.74% of the votes in the constituency).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1951 TO THE FIRST LOK SABHA - VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008000000/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF |date=October 8, 2014 }}''</ref> By the 1954 elections the party had disappeared.<ref name="Ghosh1954">{{cite book|author=Ajoy Ghosh|title=Miscellaneous writings: Communist Party of India, 1954-1956|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nUA5AQAAIAAJ|year=1954|page=46}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Political parties in Travancore–Cochin]]<br />
[[Category:Political parties established in 1949]]<br />
[[Category:Conservative parties in India]]<br />
[[Category:1949 establishments in India]]<br />
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1954]]<br />
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