Constituency
54. Chelakara
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-CHELAKARA
INC 50.1%won by 8.8%CPM 41.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.3% between them, down from 98.8% — 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
87,928
Margin
7,751
8.82%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1M. A. KITTAPPANIndian National Congress · INC44,01150.1%
- 2K. V. PUSHPACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM36,26041.2%
- 3GOPI MASTERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,1197.0%
- 4KRISHNANIndependent · IND1,0561.2%
- 5E.G. CHATHUIndependent · IND2460.3%
- 6K.K. ASHOKANIndependent · IND2360.3%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +12.1%
- INC share
- 47.8% → 50.1%
- CPM share
- 51.1% → 41.2%
- Turnout
- — → —