Constituency
101. Ambalapuzha
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-AMBALAPUZHA
CPM 52.3%won by 4.5%IND 47.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 4.5%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 42.8% to 52.3% of the vote here (+9.5%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 94.6% — 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
68,893
Margin
3,125
4.54%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPM- 1P. K. CHANDRANANDANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM36,00952.3%
- 2V. DINAKARANIndependent · IND32,88447.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- −34.6%
- CPM share
- 42.8% → 52.3%
- IND share
- 3.7% → 47.7%
- Turnout
- — → —