Constituency
134. Trivandrum North
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1991
KL-TRIVANDRUM-NORTH
CPM 46.2%won by 0.3%NDP 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.3% to 0.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNational Democratic Party (Indian) (NDP) finished second with 45.9% — it did not contest here in 1987.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.1% of the vote between them, up from 85.7% — 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
1,14,408
Margin
340
0.30%
Candidates
13 contested · winner CPM- 1M. VIJAYA KUMARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM52,86546.2%
- 2T. RAVEENDTAN THAMPINational Democratic Party (Indian) · NDP52,52545.9%
- 3RAICHAL MATHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,6025.8%
- 4KARAKULAM SATHYAKUMARIndependent · IND4730.4%
- 5T.R. JAYAKUMARJanahitha Paksha · JP4140.4%
- 6GOPALAKRISHNA NAIRLKD · LKD3640.3%
- 7HARIKUMAR K. KUTTAN PILLAIIndependent · IND3280.3%
- 8KRISHNAN NAIRIndependent · IND2310.2%
- 9K. SIVA KUMARIndependent · IND2030.2%
- 10CHENNILODE BALACHANDRANIndependent · IND1550.1%
- 11PEROORKADA VISWANATHANIndependent · IND1060.1%
- 12RAJAN RAMAKRISHNAN ASSARYIndependent · IND780.1%
- 13B. RAJENDRAN NAIRIndependent · IND640.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–NDP swing
- −49.7%
- CPM share
- 50.0% → 46.2%
- NDP share
- 0.0% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- — → —