Constituency
127. Varkala
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 2001
KL-VARKALA
INC 48.9%won by 2.1%CPM 46.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.6% to 48.9% of the vote here (+28.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.6% of the vote between them, up from 75.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
92,678
Margin
1,988
2.15%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1VARKALA KAHARIndian National Congress · INC45,31548.9%
- 2P.K.GURUDASANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM43,32746.8%
- 3ELAKAMON SATHEESANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,3443.6%
- 4R.K.NAIRIndependent · IND6920.7%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +36.8%
- INC share
- 20.6% → 48.9%
- CPM share
- 55.2% → 46.8%
- Turnout
- — → —