Constituency
20. Vadakara
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-VADAKARA
JDS 38.0%won by 7.3%JDU 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal (Secular) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.7% to 7.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJanata Dal (United) (JDU) finished second with 30.6% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.6% between them, down from 81.4% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,58,907
Turnout
81.5%
Valid votes
1,29,572
Margin
9,511
7.34%
Candidates
12 contested · winner JDS- 1C.K.NANUJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS49,21138.0%
- 2MANAYATH CHANDRANJanata Dal (United) · JDU39,70030.6%
- 3K.K.REMA T. P. HOUSEIndependent · IND20,50415.8%
- 4ADV. M. RAJESHKUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,93710.8%
- 5P. ABDUL HAMEED MASTERSDPI · SDPI2,6732.1%
- 6MADAPARAMBATH CHANDRANIndependent · IND1,6481.3%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA5060.4%
- 8K.K.REMA KUNIYILIndependent · IND3520.3%
- 9STALIN.P.PCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2840.2%
- 10T. K. NANU THAZHE KANDOTHIndependent · IND2790.2%
- 11MATHATH CHANDRANIndependent · IND2400.2%
- 12T. P. RAMA VADAKKE EROTHIndependent · IND2380.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- JDS
- Winner now
- JDS
- JDS–JDU swing
- −33.7%
- JDS share
- 41.1% → 38.0%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- 80.7% → 81.5%