Constituency
121. Karunagapally
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-KARUNAGAPALLY
CPI 50.7%won by 2.8%IND 47.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.8% to 2.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 86.8% — 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
70,620
Margin
1,989
2.82%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1B. M. SHERIFFCommunist Party of India · CPI35,83150.7%
- 2T. V. VIJAYARAJANIndependent · IND33,84247.9%
- 3T. A. ABDUL KHAYYOOM KHADIARIndependent · IND5730.8%
- 4ISMAIL KUNJUIndependent · IND3740.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–IND swing
- −31.8%
- CPI share
- 47.8% → 50.7%
- IND share
- 13.2% → 47.9%
- Turnout
- — → —