Constituency
4. Hosdrug
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-HOSDRUG
INC 45.0%won by 0.1%CPI 44.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.9% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 59 votes (0.06%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
1,03,799
Margin
59
0.06%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1N. MANOHARAN MASTERIndian National Congress · INC46,67745.0%
- 2PALLIPRAM BALANCommunist Party of India · CPI46,61844.9%
- 3P. K. VELAYUDHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,7397.5%
- 4CHAKRAPANIIndependent · IND2,0241.9%
- 5P. K. RAMANIndependent · IND4510.4%
- 6MADHAVANIndependent · IND2900.3%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +13.0%
- INC share
- 43.5% → 45.0%
- CPI share
- 56.5% → 44.9%
- Turnout
- — → —