Constituency
72. Ernakulam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 2001
KL-ERNAKULAM
INC 50.2%won by 11.6%IND 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 11.2% to 11.6%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 38.6% — it polled just 0.3% in 1996.
- 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
1,02,156
Margin
11,844
11.59%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1PROF. K V THOMASIndian National Congress · INC51,26550.2%
- 2SEBASTIAN PAULIndependent · IND39,42138.6%
- 3ADV. P J THOMASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,7297.6%
- 4SEBASTIANIndependent · IND1,6031.6%
- 5K V THOMASIndependent · IND1,0011.0%
- 6JOHN PALLANIndependent · IND5590.5%
- 7KALOOR JOSEIndependent · IND3770.4%
- 8BOSCO FERNADESIndependent · IND2010.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −39.9%
- INC share
- 51.8% → 50.2%
- IND share
- 0.3% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- — → —