Constituency
34. Malappuram
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-MALAPPURAM
MUL 67.9%won by 35.9%IML 32.1%
What changed here
DerivedMUL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 42.9% to 35.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIML (IML) finished second with 32.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
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
53,874
Margin
19,330
35.88%
Candidates
2 contested · winner MUL- 1U. A. BEERANMUL · MUL36,60267.9%
- 2T. K. F. M. A. MUTHUKOYA THANGALIML · IML17,27232.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- MUL
- Winner now
- MUL
- MUL–IML swing
- −35.6%
- MUL share
- 71.5% → 67.9%
- IML share
- 0.0% → 32.1%
- Turnout
- — → —