Constituency
17. Badagara
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1982
KL-BADAGARA
JNP 55.0%won by 15.8%IND 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.7% to 15.8%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 39.2% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 94.2% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
77,279
Margin
12,177
15.76%
Candidates
8 contested · winner JNP- 1K . CHANDRASEKHARANJanata Party · JNP42,47555.0%
- 2M . K . PRABHAKARANIndependent · IND30,29839.2%
- 3ASHOKAN P. M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,8203.6%
- 4KUNNUMMAL MOHANANIndependent · IND9621.2%
- 5SANKU AYANIKKADIndependent · IND3100.4%
- 6MULIYI ISANKARANIndependent · IND2270.3%
- 7P. K . PRABHAKARANIndependent · IND1030.1%
- 8M . S. KARUNAKARANIndependent · IND840.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–IND swing
- −35.1%
- JNP share
- 50.8% → 55.0%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —