Constituency
90. Kottayam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1982
KL-KOTTAYAM
IND 53.1%won by 7.3%CPM 45.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 7.3%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 2.3% to 53.1% of the vote here (+50.8%).
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
73,244
Margin
5,338
7.29%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1N. SRINIVASANIndependent · IND38,88653.1%
- 2K. M. ABRAHAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM33,54845.8%
- 3K. N. AMMUKUTTYIndependent · IND3200.4%
- 4CHAKKARAKULAM KUMARIndependent · IND1840.3%
- 5ALEXANDER LUKOSEIndependent · IND1270.2%
- 6CHANDY LORAHIndependent · IND1130.2%
- 7ALEXANDER SCARIAIndependent · IND660.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPM swing
- +61.1%
- IND share
- 2.3% → 53.1%
- CPM share
- 56.1% → 45.8%
- Turnout
- — → —