Constituency
62. Mala
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-MALA
INC 51.8%won by 4.9%CPM 46.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.4% to 4.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
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
69,452
Margin
3,402
4.90%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1K. KARUNAKARANIndian National Congress · INC35,96451.8%
- 2PAUL KOKKATCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM32,56246.9%
- 3DAVID THOTTATHILIndependent · IND6681.0%
- 4BABY MATHEWIndependent · IND2580.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −10.5%
- INC share
- 56.4% → 51.8%
- CPM share
- 41.0% → 46.9%
- Turnout
- — → —