Constituency
138. Kovalam
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 2006
KL-KOVALAM
INC 36.4%won by 10.2%IND 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 45.9% to 36.4% of the vote here (−9.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 26.3% — it polled just 1.5% in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.7% 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
1,06,353
Margin
10,825
10.18%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1ADV GEORGE MERCIERIndian National Congress · INC38,76436.4%
- 2DR. AIndependent · IND27,93926.3%
- 3RUFUS DANIELJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS26,17524.6%
- 4K SATHEESH KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,1166.7%
- 5VANDITHADAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,7312.6%
- 6ROSAMMA TIndependent · IND1,5881.5%
- 7J SISUPALANIndependent · IND6280.6%
- 8FIROZ KHANIndependent · IND5330.5%
- 9K ARUN KUMARIndependent · IND4720.4%
- 10JAPAMANI CANANIndependent · IND4070.4%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- JDS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −34.3%
- INC share
- 45.9% → 36.4%
- IND share
- 1.5% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —