Constituency
8. Taliparamba
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-TALIPARAMBA
CPM 49.1%won by 2.5%IND 46.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.5% to 2.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 46.6% — it did not contest here in 1982.
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
1,06,407
Margin
2,616
2.46%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1K. K. N. PARIYARAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM52,24749.1%
- 2C. P. MOOSSANKUTTYIndependent · IND49,63146.6%
- 3P. M. BALCHANDRANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,7853.6%
- 4E. SASIDHARANIndependent · IND2840.3%
- 5K. DAMODARANIndependent · IND1590.1%
- 6K. T. MADHUSUDHANANIndependent · IND1310.1%
- 7P. ABDURAHIMANIndependent · IND610.1%
- 8K. N. KRISHNAN KUNHIIndependent · IND570.1%
- 9K. MUHAMMED KUNHIIndependent · IND520.0%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −52.4%
- CPM share
- 54.8% → 49.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 46.6%
- Turnout
- — → —