Constituency
114. Pathanapuram
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-PATHANAPURAM
CPI 50.7%won by 13.7%IND 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Kerala Congress (KEC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 13.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 47.0% to 50.7% of the vote here (+3.7%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 37.0% — it polled just 0.5% in 1982.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.7% between them, down from 99.5% — 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
91,898
Margin
12,603
13.71%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPI- 1E. CHANDRASEKHARAN NAIRCommunist Party of India · CPI46,61150.7%
- 2A. GEORGEIndependent · IND34,00837.0%
- 3SAYED USMANIndependent · IND7,5468.2%
- 4A. V. MURALEEDHARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,8133.1%
- 5RADHAKRISHNANIndependent · IND2950.3%
- 6ABDUL MAJEEDIndependent · IND2280.2%
- 7VARGHESE GEORGE NALIECKALIndependent · IND2170.2%
- 8ASSAN BAVA RAWTHERIndependent · IND1090.1%
- 9MASOOD RAWTHERIndependent · IND370.0%
- 10P. K. MRIDULAKSHANIndependent · IND340.0%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- KEC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–IND swing
- −32.8%
- CPI share
- 47.0% → 50.7%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- — → —