Constituency
90. Kottayam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1991
KL-KOTTAYAM
CPM 49.4%won by 2.4%INC 47.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.3% to 2.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
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
1,09,616
Margin
2,682
2.45%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1T.K. RAMAKRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,18249.4%
- 2CHERIAN PHILIPIndian National Congress · INC51,50047.0%
- 3P.J. THOMASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,5862.4%
- 4K.J. RAJUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8480.8%
- 5T.A. RAHIMIndependent · IND2580.2%
- 6KUTHIRAVATTOM SASIIndependent · IND1950.2%
- 7SOBHANAKUMARI RAHDAKRISHNANIndependent · IND470.0%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −6.8%
- CPM share
- 54.0% → 49.4%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 47.0%
- Turnout
- — → —