Constituency
95. Vaikom
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-VAIKOM
CPI 47.0%won by 18.6%INC 28.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.7% to 18.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.3% between them, down from 94.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.0% to 81.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,62,632
Turnout
81.2%
Valid votes
1,32,048
Margin
24,584
18.62%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1C K ASHACommunist Party of India · CPI61,99747.0%
- 2ADV. A SANEESHKUMARIndian National Congress · INC37,41328.3%
- 3N K NEELAKANDAN MASTERBDJS · BDJS30,06722.8%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA8000.6%
- 5K C CHANDRASEKHARANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5400.4%
- 6SUBEESH SURENDRANJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP4890.4%
- 7ANILA BOSESUCI · SUCI4200.3%
- 8K C PRAKASHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2040.2%
- 9KUTTAN KATTACHIRAIndependent · IND1180.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +9.9%
- CPI share
- 51.6% → 47.0%
- INC share
- 42.9% → 28.3%
- Turnout
- 79.2% → 81.2%