Constituency
138. Kovalam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-KOVALAM
INC 54.5%won by 10.2%CPI 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 54.5% of the vote here (+54.5%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 44.3% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.8% of the vote between them, up from 92.6% — 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
73,441
Margin
7,521
10.24%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1M. R. RAGHU CHANDRA BALIndian National Congress · INC40,04754.5%
- 2V. THANKAYYANCommunist Party of India · CPI32,52644.3%
- 3M. A. ROBINSONIndependent · IND8681.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +10.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 54.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —