Election
Constituency

97. Kottayam

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Kerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016

KL-KOTTAYAM

INC 57.5%won by 26.2%CPM 31.3%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.6% to 26.2%.

  • Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • 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
1,64,097
Turnout
78.4%
Valid votes
1,28,603
Margin
33,632
26.15%

Candidates

9 contested · winner INC
  1. 1THIRUVANCHOOR RADHAKRISHNANIndian National Congress · INC73,89457.5%
  2. 2ADV. REJI SAKHARIYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM40,26231.3%
  3. 3ADV. M S KARUNAKARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,5829.8%
  4. 4ADV. P K GEETHA KRISHNANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6510.5%
  5. 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4830.4%
  6. 6ROY CHEMMANAMSamajwadi Party · SP4030.3%
  7. 7REJITHA JAYARAMSUCI · SUCI1820.1%
  8. 8JOHN JOYIndependent · IND880.1%
  9. 9PAYAS C PIndependent · IND580.0%

Since 2011

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPM swing
+25.5%
INC share
46.8% → 57.5%
CPM share
46.2% → 31.3%
Turnout
77.5% → 78.4%
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