Constituency
127. Varkala
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1991
KL-VARKALA
CPM 50.5%won by 3.9%INC 46.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.2% to 3.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 46.6% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.1% of the vote between them, up from 88.2% — 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
85,129
Margin
3,297
3.87%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1VARKALA RADHAKRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM42,97750.5%
- 2VARKALA KAHARIndian National Congress · INC39,68046.6%
- 3RAJENDRA PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,6642.0%
- 4VAKEEL RADHAKRISHNANIndependent · IND2500.3%
- 5K. RADHAKRISHNANIndependent · IND1990.2%
- 6THETTIKULAM KADAKKAVOOR SATHYADASIndependent · IND1950.2%
- 7MANAMBOOR B. VIJAYANIndependent · IND960.1%
- 8SHIHABUDEENIndependent · IND680.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −49.9%
- CPM share
- 53.7% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 46.6%
- Turnout
- — → —