Election
Constituency

73. Mattancherry

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Kerala Assembly Election, 1996

KL-MATTANCHERRY

IND 40.5%won by 0.7%MUL 39.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: MUL (MUL) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 0.7%.

  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.2% between them, down from 90.3% — the field split more ways.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 425 votes (0.72%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • Multi-cornered4 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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Valid votes
59,313
Margin
425
0.72%

Candidates

8 contested · winner IND
  1. 1M.A.THOMASIndependent · IND24,00340.5%
  2. 2T.A.AHAMED KABEERMUL · MUL23,57839.8%
  3. 3K.SASIDHARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,4319.2%
  4. 4SABU ALIJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP5,2388.8%
  5. 5T.S.THAMPANShiv Sena · SHS6381.1%
  6. 6S.BALAKRISHNAN BHATIndependent · IND2050.3%
  7. 7VINAYARAM RAMDASIndependent · IND1330.2%
  8. 8ASHARAF ABOOIndependent · IND870.1%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
MUL
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–MUL swing
+14.5%
IND share
38.3% → 40.5%
MUL share
52.1% → 39.8%
Turnout
— → —
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