Travancore-Cochin was the first state to have a separate assembly election in 1954 after the government lost the majority. This separately conducted election saw the vote share of the Congress rising massively to 45.32 per cent from the 35 per cent share they received in both the assembly and Lok Sabha elections simultaneously held in 1952. However, in the concurrently held Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the newly-formed Kerala state in 1957, the CPI, with a 35.28 per cent vote share, won 60 of the 126 seats in the assembly and won nine of the 18 Lok Sabha seats with a 37.48 per cent vote share. The lower vote share in the assembly elections was because the party supported prominent civil society members as independents in more than a dozen seats. The Congress’ vote share, too, was higher in the assembly election (37.85 per cent) than in the Lok Sabha (34.76 per cent), though they contested a similar number of seats. The other national party, the PSP, also recorded a higher vote share in the assembly elections (10.76 per cent) than in the Lok Sabha (7.25 per cent) in the simultaneously held 1957 elections.