Constituency
70. Irinjalakkuda
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-IRINJALAKKUDA
CPM 40.0%won by 1.8%KECM 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Kerala Congress (M) (KECM) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 1.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.2% between them, down from 94.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,91,930
Turnout
77.8%
Valid votes
1,49,324
Margin
2,711
1.82%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1PROF. K.U. ARUNAN (E)Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM59,73040.0%
- 2ADV. THOMAS UNNIYADANKerala Congress (M) · KECM57,01938.2%
- 3SANTHOSH CHERAKULAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP30,42020.4%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA8570.6%
- 5V.C. UNNIKRISHNANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6390.4%
- 6DAVIS CHATHELIIndependent · IND3450.2%
- 7AYYAPPAN MANAYKALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3140.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- KECM
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–KECM swing
- +11.2%
- CPM share
- 42.3% → 40.0%
- KECM share
- 51.7% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- 76.0% → 77.8%