Constituency
40. Kuttippuram
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1996
KL-KUTTIPPURAM
MUL 59.6%won by 31.3%INL 28.2%
What changed here
DerivedMUL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 30.7% to 31.3%.
- New challengerIndian National League (INL) finished second with 28.2% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Safe seatMUL won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
78,794
Margin
24,696
31.34%
Candidates
10 contested · winner MUL- 1P.K. KUNHALIKUTTYMUL · MUL46,94359.6%
- 2IBRAHIM HAJI MAYYERIIndian National League · INL22,24728.2%
- 3PUSHPARAJAN ATHAVANADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,0186.4%
- 4C.K.ABDUL AZEEZIndependent · IND2,2192.8%
- 5HAMSAKUTTY MAYYERIIndependent · IND1,0291.3%
- 6K.P.SAIDALIIndependent · IND5780.7%
- 7K.C. SREEDHARANIndependent · IND3410.4%
- 8KALLAN ABDURAHIMANIndependent · IND1800.2%
- 9YOOSUF KARIKULAKKATIndependent · IND1300.2%
- 10POONERI KUNHIMOIDEENJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP1090.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- MUL
- Winner now
- MUL
- MUL–INL swing
- −30.3%
- MUL share
- 61.6% → 59.6%
- INL share
- 0.0% → 28.2%
- Turnout
- — → —