Constituency
109. Mavelikara
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-MAVELIKARA
CPM 47.7%won by 9.5%IND 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.7% to 9.5%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 38.2% — it polled just 1.1% in 1982.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.9% between them, down from 98.1% — 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
86,317
Margin
8,201
9.50%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPM- 1S. GOVINDA KURUPCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,17847.7%
- 2K. P. RAMACHANDRAN NAIRIndependent · IND32,97738.2%
- 3P. J. THOMASIndependent · IND5,2186.0%
- 4P. K. VISHNU NAMPOOTHIRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,6555.4%
- 5DAVID MATHEWIndependent · IND1,0931.3%
- 6K. N. THANKAPPAN PILLAIIndependent · IND3060.4%
- 7MAVELIKARA SUDARSANAIndependent · IND2720.3%
- 8VIJARAJAN PACHUIndependent · IND1960.2%
- 9SIVADASAN PILLAIIndependent · IND1870.2%
- 10P. KRISHNA PILLAIIndependent · IND1160.1%
- 11MATHEW K. GEORGEIndependent · IND650.1%
- 12RAJAPPAN PILLAIIndependent · IND540.1%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −39.3%
- CPM share
- 49.9% → 47.7%
- IND share
- 1.1% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- — → —