Constituency
117. Kottarakara
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1991
KL-KOTTARAKARA
IND 51.2%won by 5.9%CPM 45.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Kerala Congress (KEC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 5.9%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 13.3% to 51.2% of the vote here (+37.9%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 45.3% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.4% of the vote between them, up from 83.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
92,101
Margin
5,415
5.88%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1R. BALAKRISHNA PILLAIIndependent · IND47,12251.2%
- 2GEORGE MATHEWCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM41,70745.3%
- 3K. RAMACHANDRAN NAIRBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,2972.5%
- 4PALLICKAL SAMUELBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5030.5%
- 5POOVATTOOR RAJASEKHARAN NAIRIndependent · IND2510.3%
- 6THULASEEDHARAN PILLAI RADHAKRISHNA PILLAIIndependent · IND2210.2%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- KEC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPM swing
- −7.4%
- IND share
- 13.3% → 51.2%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 45.3%
- Turnout
- — → —