Constituency
117. Kottarakara
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-KOTTARAKARA
KCP 74.2%won by 56.2%IND 18.0%
What changed here
DerivedKCP held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.3% to 56.2%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 18.0% — it polled just 0.5% in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.2% between them, down from 99.4% — the field split more ways.
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
65,362
Margin
36,711
56.17%
Candidates
3 contested · winner KCP- 1R. BALAKRISHNA PILLAIKCP · KCP48,47374.2%
- 2THEVANNOOR SREEDHARAN NAIRIndependent · IND11,76218.0%
- 3THOMASIndependent · IND5,1277.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- KCP
- Winner now
- KCP
- KCP–IND swing
- −4.7%
- KCP share
- 61.4% → 74.2%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 18.0%
- Turnout
- — → —