Constituency
36. Tirurangadi
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-TIRURANGADI
MUL 56.8%won by 32.2%CPI 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedMUL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.0% to 32.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% between them, down from 90.1% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatMUL won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
80,302
Margin
25,848
32.19%
Candidates
9 contested · winner MUL- 1KUNHALIKUTTY KEYI, C. P.MUL · MUL45,58656.8%
- 2E.P. MUHAMMEDALICommunist Party of India · CPI19,73824.6%
- 3PUSHPARAJAN , M.P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,68314.5%
- 4A.M. BASHEER MUSLIARIndependent · IND1,9982.5%
- 5K. ABDUL MAJEEDIndependent · IND3970.5%
- 6ARAKKAL PALAYIL IMBICHIKOYAIndependent · IND3310.4%
- 7K. GANGADHARANIndependent · IND2970.4%
- 8VELAYUDHAN NAIR, S.Independent · IND1420.2%
- 9S.N. VALLIYILIndependent · IND1300.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- MUL
- Winner now
- MUL
- MUL–CPI swing
- +9.2%
- MUL share
- 56.5% → 56.8%
- CPI share
- 33.5% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —