Constituency
79. Piravom
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-PIRAVOM
CPM 44.2%won by 17.3%INC 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 17.3%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 44.2% of the vote here (+44.2%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 26.9% — it did not contest here in 1982.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.0% between them, down from 98.6% — 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
94,255
Margin
16,300
17.29%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1GOPI KOTTAMUNIKKALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,61444.2%
- 2BENNY BEHANANIndian National Congress · INC25,31426.9%
- 3C. POULOSEIndependent · IND24,89026.4%
- 4SREEDHARAN NAIRIndependent · IND1,2371.3%
- 5RAJAN JACOBIndependent · IND3840.4%
- 6GOPI M. R.Independent · IND3130.3%
- 7VARGHESE THANAMIndependent · IND3070.3%
- 8BABY K. NELLATIndependent · IND830.1%
- 9YACOB C. P.Independent · IND620.1%
- 10ABRAHAM C. VARGHESEIndependent · IND510.1%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +17.3%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 44.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- — → —