Constituency
3. Udma
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-UDMA
CPM 46.3%won by 7.3%IND 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 7.3%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 46.3% of the vote here (+46.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.2% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
69,070
Margin
5,020
7.27%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1K. PURUSHOTHAMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM31,94846.3%
- 2N. K. BALAKRISHNANIndependent · IND26,92839.0%
- 3M. KUMHIRAMAN NAMBIARIndependent · IND9,12713.2%
- 4T. BHARATHANIndependent · IND7311.1%
- 5K. DAMODARAN NAIRIndependent · IND3360.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- +60.2%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 46.3%
- IND share
- 53.0% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- — → —