Constituency
82. Thodupuzha
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1982
KL-THODUPUZHA
KCJ 57.9%won by 22.2%RSP 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedKCJ held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.3% to 22.2%.
- New challengerRashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) finished second with 35.7% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- 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
70,872
Margin
15,738
22.21%
Candidates
6 contested · winner KCJ- 1P. J. JOSEPHKCJ · KCJ41,02057.9%
- 2N. A. PRABHARashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP25,28235.7%
- 3D. MATHEWBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,6655.2%
- 4MYLAN THANKAPPANIndependent · IND3210.5%
- 5GEORGE VADAKKANIndependent · IND2960.4%
- 6SASINDHRAN ITTIYATHIIndependent · IND2880.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- KCJ
- Winner now
- KCJ
- KCJ–RSP swing
- −33.6%
- KCJ share
- 55.8% → 57.9%
- RSP share
- 0.0% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- — → —