Constituency
78. Kunnathunad
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-KUNNATHUNAD
CPM 49.4%won by 0.6%INC 48.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.2% to 0.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.3% of the vote between them, up from 92.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 433 votes (0.59%) — 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
73,757
Margin
433
0.59%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −3.6%
- CPM share
- 48.1% → 49.4%
- INC share
- 44.0% → 48.8%
- Turnout
- — → —