Constituency
18. Sulthanbathery
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-SULTHANBATHERY
INC 44.0%won by 6.5%CPM 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.2% to 6.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.6% between them, down from 93.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.6% to 78.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,18,241
Turnout
78.8%
Valid votes
1,72,004
Margin
11,198
6.51%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1I C BALAKRISHNANIndian National Congress · INC75,74744.0%
- 2RUGMINI SUBRAHMANIANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM64,54937.5%
- 3C K JANUIndependent · IND27,92016.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,2610.7%
- 5MUKUNDAN CHEENGERIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7910.5%
- 6MADHAVICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6090.4%
- 7K K VASUSamajwadi Party · SP4780.3%
- 8BALAKRISHNAN EDAKKALIndependent · IND3870.2%
- 9T R SREEDHARANSUCI · SUCI2620.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +1.3%
- INC share
- 49.1% → 44.0%
- CPM share
- 43.9% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- 73.3% → 78.8%