Constituency
58. Trichur
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-TRICHUR
CPM 47.4%won by 4.8%IND 42.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: National Democratic Party (Indian) (NDP) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 4.8%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 42.6% — it polled just 1.6% in 1982.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.1% between them, down from 97.3% — the field split more ways.
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
88,148
Margin
4,260
4.83%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1E. K. MENONCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,82247.4%
- 2M. VENUGOPALA MENONIndependent · IND37,56242.6%
- 3PUTHEZHATH RAMACHANDRANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,7797.7%
- 4P. DAMODARA MENONIndependent · IND6810.8%
- 5V. N. GOPALAKRISHNANIndependent · IND3190.4%
- 6CHACKO A. L.Independent · IND2970.3%
- 7JOSEPH MAMBRAIndependent · IND2640.3%
- 8K.K. DAMODHARAN MASTERIndependent · IND2480.3%
- 9AMBADATH NARAYANANIndependent · IND1760.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- NDP
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- −40.8%
- CPM share
- 47.2% → 47.4%
- IND share
- 1.6% → 42.6%
- Turnout
- — → —