Constituency
43. Thrithala
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-THRITHALA
INC 47.2%won by 3.7%CPM 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.6% to 3.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.7% between them, down from 95.7% — the field split more ways.
- 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
84,734
Margin
3,096
3.65%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1M.P. THAMIIndian National Congress · INC39,97747.2%
- 2M.K. KRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM36,88143.5%
- 3T.V. VELAYUDHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,0498.3%
- 4M.P. VELAYUDHANIndependent · IND5170.6%
- 5P. VELAYUDHANIndependent · IND3100.4%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +3.0%
- INC share
- 48.2% → 47.2%
- CPM share
- 47.6% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- — → —