Constituency
8. Taliparamba
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-TALIPARAMBA
CPM 56.9%won by 25.4%KECM 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.3% to 25.4%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,97,568
Turnout
81.0%
Valid votes
1,59,980
Margin
40,617
25.39%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1JAMES MATHEWCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM91,10656.9%
- 2RAJESH NAMBIARKerala Congress (M) · KECM50,48931.6%
- 3P. BALAKRISHNAN MASTERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,7429.2%
- 4IBRAHIM THIRUVATTOORSDPI · SDPI1,3230.8%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA8670.5%
- 6P. K. AYYAPPAN MASTERBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6750.4%
- 7K. SADANANDANIndependent · IND2880.2%
- 8K. RAJESH KUMARIndependent · IND2870.2%
- 9P. V. ANILIndependent · IND2030.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–KECM swing
- +6.1%
- CPM share
- 56.1% → 56.9%
- KECM share
- 36.8% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- 82.6% → 81.0%