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Constituency

13. Peringalam

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Kerala Assembly Election, 1996

KL-PERINGALAM

JD 50.0%won by 13.6%MUL 36.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: MUL (MUL) lost it to Janata Dal (JD), which now leads by 13.6%.

  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.5% between them, down from 96.0% — 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,03,804
Margin
14,080
13.56%

Candidates

9 contested · winner JD
  1. 1P.R.KURUPJanata Dal · JD51,92150.0%
  2. 2K.M.SOOPYMUL · MUL37,84136.5%
  3. 3PANNIANNUR CHANDRANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,3069.9%
  4. 4MANIKKOTH HAMEEDIndependent · IND1,2241.2%
  5. 5M.C.SUKUMARANIndependent · IND1,1381.1%
  6. 6K.SUDHEER KUMARIndependent · IND6190.6%
  7. 7ILLATH GOPALANIndependent · IND4020.4%
  8. 8GOPALAN PARAMBATHIndependent · IND2110.2%
  9. 9MEETHAL YUSUFIndependent · IND1420.1%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
MUL
Winner now
JDflipped
JD–MUL swing
+15.2%
JD share
47.2% → 50.0%
MUL share
48.8% → 36.5%
Turnout
— → —
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