Constituency
127. Varkala
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-VARKALA
CPM 55.4%won by 11.8%INC 43.7%
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 11.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 55.4% of the vote here (+55.4%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 43.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.1% of the vote between them, up from 86.6% — 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
61,586
Margin
7,261
11.79%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +11.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 55.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 43.7%
- Turnout
- — → —