Constituency
96. Vaikom
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1996
KL-VAIKOM
CPI 52.3%won by 9.2%INC 43.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 9.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 47.7% to 52.3% of the vote here (+4.5%).
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
1,00,009
Margin
9,238
9.24%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1M.K.KESAVANCommunist Party of India · CPI52,26252.3%
- 2K.K. BALAKRISHNANIndian National Congress · INC43,02443.0%
- 3CA THANKACHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,9302.9%
- 4P.SHANMUGHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8080.8%
- 5K.K.KESAVANIndependent · IND8010.8%
- 6P.KUTTANIndependent · IND1840.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +10.2%
- CPI share
- 47.7% → 52.3%
- INC share
- 48.7% → 43.0%
- Turnout
- — → —