Constituency
56. Kunnamkulam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 2006
KL-KUNNAMKULAM
CPIM 53.3%won by 18.8%DIC 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 18.8%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 53.3% of the vote here (+53.3%).
- New challengerDIC (DIC) finished second with 34.6% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.9% between them, down from 93.7% — 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
1,15,970
Margin
21,785
18.79%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPIM- 1BABU M PALISSERYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM61,86553.3%
- 2ADV.V .BALARAMDIC · DIC40,08034.6%
- 3BALAKRISHNAN NAIRBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,6475.7%
- 4BALARAMIndependent · IND2,6132.3%
- 5N.VIJAYAAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK2,0531.8%
- 6K.N.SHAJIIndependent · IND7860.7%
- 7SANTHOSHIndependent · IND7720.7%
- 8N.BALARAMIndependent · IND7660.7%
- 9M.P.BALARAMANIndependent · IND3880.3%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–DIC swing
- +18.8%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 53.3%
- DIC share
- 0.0% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —