Constituency
76. Alwaye
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1996
KL-ALWAYE
INC 47.5%won by 14.3%CPM 33.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.6% to 14.3%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.8% between them, down from 93.0% — the field split more ways.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,21,811
Margin
17,422
14.30%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1K.MOHAMMEDALIIndian National Congress · INC57,90247.5%
- 2SAROJINI BALANANDHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM40,48033.2%
- 3P.S.GOPINATHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,2457.6%
- 4NAZEER BABUJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP7,4856.1%
- 5T. THANKAPPAN NAIRIndependent · IND4,9904.1%
- 6K.T.JOYIndependent · IND1,0500.9%
- 7K.S.RAVIKUMARIndependent · IND2270.2%
- 8RAMAKRISHNAN KARTHAShiv Sena · SHS1670.1%
- 9M.R.MANOHARANIndependent · IND1550.1%
- 10MARY R.PAIIndependent · IND1100.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +7.7%
- INC share
- 49.8% → 47.5%
- CPM share
- 43.2% → 33.2%
- Turnout
- — → —