Constituency
61. Chelakkara
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-CHELAKKARA
CPM 44.8%won by 6.7%INC 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.6% to 6.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.9% between them, down from 92.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.7% to 79.2%.
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Electorate
1,90,919
Turnout
79.2%
Valid votes
1,51,225
Margin
10,200
6.74%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1U R PRADEEPCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM67,77144.8%
- 2THULASIIndian National Congress · INC57,57138.1%
- 3SHAJUMON P PBharatiya Janata Party · BJP23,84515.8%
- 4A SUBRAMANIANSDPI · SDPI1,1160.7%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA9220.6%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −11.8%
- CPM share
- 55.4% → 44.8%
- INC share
- 36.9% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- 76.5% → 79.2%