Constituency
27. Kunnamangalam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1996
KL-KUNNAMANGALAM
CPM 47.4%won by 6.1%MUL 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.1% to 6.1%.
- New challengerMUL (MUL) finished second with 41.3% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,08,503
Margin
6,616
6.10%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1C.P.BALAN VAIDYARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM51,40147.4%
- 2A.P.UNNIKRISHNANMUL · MUL44,78541.3%
- 3P.K.VELAYUDHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,87810.9%
- 4P.K.RADHAKRISHNANIndian National League · INL2960.3%
- 5SIVADASAN,V.P.Independent · IND1430.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–MUL swing
- −40.1%
- CPM share
- 46.2% → 47.4%
- MUL share
- 0.0% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- — → —