Constituency
56. Palakkad
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-PALAKKAD
INC 41.8%won by 12.7%BJP 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.6% to 12.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.9% between them, down from 78.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.5% to 77.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,78,387
Turnout
77.3%
Valid votes
1,37,804
Margin
17,483
12.69%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SHAFI PARAMBILIndian National Congress · INC57,55941.8%
- 2SOBHA SURENDRANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,07629.1%
- 3N N KRISHNADASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM38,67528.1%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA7190.5%
- 5HARI ARUMBILBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4110.3%
- 6DR. M. N. ANUVARUDHEENIndependent · IND3640.3%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −9.9%
- INC share
- 42.4% → 41.8%
- BJP share
- 19.9% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- 72.8% → 77.3%