Constituency
90. Kottayam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-KOTTAYAM
CPM 56.1%won by 17.9%JNP 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 17.9%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 45.3% to 56.1% of the vote here (+10.8%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 38.2% — it did not contest here 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
67,025
Margin
11,964
17.85%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1K. M. ABRAHAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM37,58856.1%
- 2P. B. R. PILLAIJanata Party · JNP25,62438.2%
- 3P. M. KURIAKOSEIndependent · IND1,5442.3%
- 4UTHUP UTHUPIndependent · IND7951.2%
- 5ALEXANDER SKARIAIndependent · IND7551.1%
- 6THOPPIL DAVIDIndependent · IND3290.5%
- 7MAULANA BASHEERAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2240.3%
- 8V. D. JOHNIndependent · IND1660.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–JNP swing
- −27.5%
- CPM share
- 45.3% → 56.1%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- — → —