Constituency
54. Chelakara
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1996
KL-CHELAKARA
CPM 46.9%won by 2.5%INC 44.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 2.5%.
- 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
94,310
Margin
2,323
2.46%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1K.RADHAKRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM44,26046.9%
- 2T.A.RADHAKRISHNANIndian National Congress · INC41,93744.5%
- 3C.C.KUNJANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,3746.8%
- 4M.K. KRISHNAKUMARIndependent · IND1,1151.2%
- 5M.R.KRISHNANIndependent · IND6240.7%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.0%
- CPM share
- 45.6% → 46.9%
- INC share
- 50.2% → 44.5%
- Turnout
- — → —