Constituency
14. Kuthuparamba
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1982
KL-KUTHUPARAMBA
CPM 60.8%won by 22.3%KEC 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.1% to 22.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerKerala Congress (KEC) finished second with 38.5% — 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
69,210
Margin
15,463
22.34%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1P . V. KUNHIKANNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM42,11160.8%
- 2C . M. MANIKerala Congress · KEC26,64838.5%
- 3V. RAJANIndependent · IND4510.7%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–KEC swing
- −43.2%
- CPM share
- 65.6% → 60.8%
- KEC share
- 0.0% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- — → —