Constituency
71. Narakal
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-NARAKAL
CPM 51.7%won by 4.4%IND 47.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 4.4%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 46.2% to 51.7% of the vote here (+5.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 47.3% — it polled just 1.9% 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
67,631
Margin
2,973
4.40%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1M. K. KRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM34,93251.7%
- 2T. K. C. VADUTHALAIndependent · IND31,95947.3%
- 3A. K. AMBIKANIndependent · IND4460.7%
- 4K. A. KANNANIndependent · IND2940.4%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- −39.8%
- CPM share
- 46.2% → 51.7%
- IND share
- 1.9% → 47.3%
- Turnout
- — → —