Constituency
8. Taliparamba
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1982
KL-TALIPARAMBA
CPM 54.8%won by 12.5%KEC 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.7% to 12.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerKerala Congress (KEC) finished second with 42.4% — it did not contest here in 1980.
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
84,450
Margin
10,539
12.48%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1C. P. MOOSSANKUTTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM46,31354.8%
- 2P.T. JOSEKerala Congress · KEC35,77442.4%
- 3R. UNNIKRISHNAN NAIRBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,3632.8%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–KEC swing
- −46.8%
- CPM share
- 59.3% → 54.8%
- KEC share
- 0.0% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- — → —