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67. Kodungallur

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Kerala Assembly Election, 1996

KL-KODUNGALLUR

CPI 51.2%won by 14.1%IND 37.2%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.7% to 14.1%.

  • New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 37.2% — it polled just 0.4% 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,00,206
Margin
14,109
14.08%

Candidates

8 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1MEENAKSHY THAMBANCommunist Party of India · CPI51,34351.2%
  2. 2K.VENUIndependent · IND37,23437.2%
  3. 3PN BALAKRISHNANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,4907.5%
  4. 4M.K.PAVITHRANIndependent · IND2,9222.9%
  5. 5SHAJAHAN C.A. (SHAJI)Independent · IND6330.6%
  6. 6U.M.KUNJUMOIDEENIndependent · IND2730.3%
  7. 7P.P.SATHIANIndependent · IND2050.2%
  8. 8M. DENNY JACOBIndependent · IND1060.1%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPI–IND swing
−36.9%
CPI share
51.4% → 51.2%
IND share
0.4% → 37.2%
Turnout
— → —
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