Constituency
34. Malappuram
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1982
KL-MALAPPURAM
MUL 67.5%won by 41.8%IML 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedMUL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 35.9% to 41.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.2% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatMUL won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
52,532
Margin
21,964
41.81%
Candidates
3 contested · winner MUL- 1P. K. KUNNALIKUTTYMUL · MUL35,46467.5%
- 2M. MOHAMED SHAFFIIML · IML13,50025.7%
- 3MANJERI NARAYANANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,5686.8%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- MUL
- Winner now
- MUL
- MUL–IML swing
- +5.9%
- MUL share
- 67.9% → 67.5%
- IML share
- 32.1% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → —