Constituency
26. Beypore
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1996
KL-BEYPORE
CPM 48.7%won by 9.5%MUL 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 9.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerMUL (MUL) finished second with 39.2% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.9% between them, down from 99.3% — the field split more ways.
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
1,27,675
Margin
12,096
9.47%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1T.K.HAMZACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM62,14448.7%
- 2UMMER PANDIKASALAMUL · MUL50,04839.2%
- 3V.MOHANANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,36311.2%
- 4MOYIN BAPPUJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP8250.6%
- 5PAYYUNNI ASHRAFIndependent · IND1490.1%
- 6KAMBISTORE ABDULLAKOYAIndian National League · INL1460.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–MUL swing
- −42.6%
- CPM share
- 52.1% → 48.7%
- MUL share
- 0.0% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —