Constituency
131. Ariyanad
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1996
KL-ARIYANAD
INC 49.5%won by 9.5%RSP 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.9% to 9.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.6% between them, down from 94.9% — the field split more ways.
- 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
91,147
Margin
8,617
9.45%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1G.KARTHIKEYANIndian National Congress · INC45,15249.5%
- 2K.P.SANKARADASRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP36,53540.1%
- 3P. SREEKUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,1386.7%
- 4SATHYADEVJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP2,3812.6%
- 5N.RAJANIndependent · IND3170.3%
- 6POOJANILAYAM SASIJanahitha Paksha · JP2450.3%
- 7S. BHUVANENDRANShiv Sena · SHS2410.3%
- 8T.VISWAMBHARANIndependent · IND1380.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RSP swing
- +5.6%
- INC share
- 49.4% → 49.5%
- RSP share
- 45.5% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- — → —