Constituency
37. Tanur
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1982
KL-TANUR
MUL 68.5%won by 46.4%IND 22.1%
What changed here
DerivedMUL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 43.7% to 46.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 22.1% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.5% 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
50,589
Margin
23,464
46.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner MUL- 1E. AHAMMEDMUL · MUL34,63268.5%
- 2CHITTAMBALAM MUIDEEN KUTTYIndependent · IND11,16822.1%
- 3JANACHANDRAN MASTER K.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,4178.7%
- 4PULLOONI AHAMMEDIndependent · IND2950.6%
- 5PONNAKKAMPAT VEERABHADRANIndependent · IND770.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- MUL
- Winner now
- MUL
- MUL–IND swing
- −25.5%
- MUL share
- 71.9% → 68.5%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 22.1%
- Turnout
- — → —