Constituency
72. Chalakkudy
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-CHALAKKUDY
CPM 49.4%won by 17.7%INC 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 17.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.0% between them, down from 94.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.4% to 78.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,90,675
Turnout
78.9%
Valid votes
1,50,394
Margin
26,648
17.72%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1B. D. DEVASSYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM74,25149.4%
- 2T. U. RADHAKRISHNANIndian National Congress · INC47,60331.7%
- 3UNNIKRISHNAN. K. ABDJS · BDJS26,22917.4%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA7390.5%
- 5AYYAPPAN VAZHAVALAPPILBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5610.4%
- 6JIJOIndependent · IND3670.2%
- 7SABU CHATHELYIndependent · IND3040.2%
- 8A. E. SABIRAIndependent · IND1910.1%
- 9N. A. DEVASSY NELLIPPILLYIndependent · IND1490.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +15.8%
- CPM share
- 48.2% → 49.4%
- INC share
- 46.2% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- 76.5% → 78.9%