Constituency
25. Balusseri
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-BALUSSERI
CPM 47.5%won by 8.9%IND 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.9% to 8.9%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 38.6% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.1% between them, down from 92.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,09,667
Turnout
83.3%
Valid votes
1,74,568
Margin
15,464
8.86%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1PURUSHUAN KADALUNDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM82,91447.5%
- 2U.C RAMAN PADANILAMIndependent · IND67,45038.6%
- 3P.K SUPRANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,32411.1%
- 4BALAN NADUVANNURSDPI · SDPI1,7641.0%
- 5SASEENDRAN BAPPANKADWPOI · WPOI9590.5%
- 6RAMAN THACHAMPOYIL MEETHALIndependent · IND7100.4%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA6380.4%
- 8K.T SIVANIndependent · IND4970.3%
- 9JAYARAJANIndependent · IND3120.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −40.3%
- CPM share
- 49.2% → 47.5%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- 81.6% → 83.3%