Constituency
69. Vadakkekara
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-VADAKKEKARA
CPM 59.0%won by 18.1%JNP 41.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.5% to 18.1%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 41.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 93.4% — 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
65,027
Margin
11,747
18.06%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1T. K. ABDUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM38,38759.0%
- 2P. N. SUKUMARAN NAIRJanata Party · JNP26,64041.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–JNP swing
- −29.4%
- CPM share
- 47.4% → 59.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 41.0%
- Turnout
- — → —