Constituency
131. Ariyanad
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-ARIYANAD
RSP 50.7%won by 2.2%JNP 48.5%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.8% to 2.2%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 48.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.2% of the vote between them, up from 86.3% — 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
57,416
Margin
1,286
2.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner RSP- 1K. PANKAJAKSHANRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP29,10850.7%
- 2CHARUPARA RAVIJanata Party · JNP27,82248.5%
- 3T. G. VIMALKUMARIndependent · IND3200.6%
- 4KADAVIL CHANDRANIndependent · IND1660.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–JNP swing
- −47.8%
- RSP share
- 50.1% → 50.7%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 48.5%
- Turnout
- — → —