Constituency
2. Kasaragod
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-KASARAGOD
MUL 47.8%won by 16.2%BJP 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedMUL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.4% to 16.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.4% of the vote between them, up from 72.6% — a tighter two-way 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
86,600
Margin
14,057
16.23%
Candidates
6 contested · winner MUL- 1C. T. AHAMMAD ALIMUL · MUL41,40747.8%
- 2SHRIKRISHAN BHATBharatiya Janata Party · BJP27,35031.6%
- 3M. RAMANNA RAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,04919.7%
- 4Y. GOPALANIndependent · IND5820.7%
- 5ABDULLAH MALLATHIndependent · IND1200.1%
- 6ERIYAL SHEREEFIndependent · IND920.1%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- MUL
- Winner now
- MUL
- MUL–BJP swing
- +2.8%
- MUL share
- 43.0% → 47.8%
- BJP share
- 29.6% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —