Constituency
72. Ernakulam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-ERNAKULAM
INC 49.9%won by 0.8%CPM 49.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.6% to 0.8%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 49.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 577 votes (0.78%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
73,544
Margin
577
0.78%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INCSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −49.0%
- INC share
- 49.8% → 49.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 49.1%
- Turnout
- — → —