Constituency
45. Ottapalam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-OTTAPALAM
INCU 50.2%won by 6.7%JNP 43.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to INCU (INCU), which now leads by 6.7%.
- INCU vote shareINCU went from 0.0% to 50.2% of the vote here (+50.2%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 43.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.6% 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
47,200
Margin
3,184
6.75%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INCU- 1V. C. KABEERINCU · INCU23,68350.2%
- 2P. R. NAMBIARJanata Party · JNP20,49943.4%
- 3K. KESAVANIndependent · IND3,0186.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INCUflipped
- INCU–JNP swing
- +6.7%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 50.2%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 43.4%
- Turnout
- — → —