Constituency
30. Sultan
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 2006
KL-SULTAN
CPIM 50.4%won by 20.4%DIC 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 20.4%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 50.4% of the vote here (+50.4%).
- New challengerDIC (DIC) finished second with 30.0% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.4% between them, down from 89.9% — the field split more ways.
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
1,25,207
Margin
25,540
20.40%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPIM- 1P KRISHNA PRASADCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM63,09250.4%
- 2N D APPACHANDIC · DIC37,55230.0%
- 3A C VARKEYIndependent · IND11,9059.5%
- 4P PADMANABHAN MASTERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,0566.4%
- 5ANNANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6751.3%
- 6AJAYA KUMARIndependent · IND1,4921.2%
- 7K K VASULoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP7510.6%
- 8KALADHARANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK6840.5%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–DIC swing
- +20.4%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 50.4%
- DIC share
- 0.0% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —