Constituency
48. Malampuzha
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1996
KL-MALAMPUZHA
CPM 56.5%won by 19.6%INC 36.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 19.8% to 19.6%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 36.8% — 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
95,716
Margin
18,779
19.62%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1T.SIVADASA MENONCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,03356.5%
- 2M.GURUSWAMYIndian National Congress · INC35,25436.8%
- 3N.SIVARAJANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,4235.7%
- 4K.MANIIndependent · IND3340.3%
- 5G.VELUSWAMY GOUNDERIndependent · IND3140.3%
- 6K.SIVANARAYANANIndependent · IND2800.3%
- 7P.K.T.KUTTANSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP780.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −35.7%
- CPM share
- 55.3% → 56.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 36.8%
- Turnout
- — → —