Constituency
140. Parassala
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1987
KL-PARASSALA
CPM 46.1%won by 7.4%INC 38.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 7.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
90,592
Margin
6,692
7.39%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1M. SATHYANESANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,75446.1%
- 2N. SUNDARAN NADARIndian National Congress · INC35,06238.7%
- 3POOZHIKUNNU SUKUMARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,22213.5%
- 4AARAYUR K. P. CHELLAPPANIndependent · IND6310.7%
- 5K. GOPALAKRISHNAN NAIRIndependent · IND2720.3%
- 6S. THANKAPPANIndependent · IND2460.3%
- 7C. BALAKRISHNANIndependent · IND2210.2%
- 8P. RAGHAVAN NADARIndependent · IND1840.2%
Since 1982
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +11.5%
- CPM share
- 47.9% → 46.1%
- INC share
- 52.1% → 38.7%
- Turnout
- — → —