Constituency
51. Kollengode
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-KOLLENGODE
CPM 50.4%won by 3.5%INC 46.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.7% to 3.5%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 46.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.4% of the vote between them, up from 91.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
72,766
Margin
2,532
3.48%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1C. VASUDEVA MENONCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM36,68850.4%
- 2A. SUNNA SAHIBIndian National Congress · INC34,15646.9%
- 3A. RAMANIndependent · IND7321.0%
- 4P. NARAYANANKUTTY MENONIndependent · IND6390.9%
- 5A. ALAVIKUTTYJNPS · JNPS5510.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −42.6%
- CPM share
- 46.1% → 50.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 46.9%
- Turnout
- — → —