Constituency
105. Ambalapuzha
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-AMBALAPUZHA
CPM 47.3%won by 17.0%JDU 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.2% to 17.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJanata Dal (United) (JDU) finished second with 30.3% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.7% between them, down from 94.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,68,949
Turnout
78.9%
Valid votes
1,33,294
Margin
22,621
16.97%
Candidates
11 contested · winner CPM- 1G.SUDHAKARANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM63,06947.3%
- 2SHAIK.P.HARRIZJanata Dal (United) · JDU40,44830.3%
- 3L.P.JAYACHANDRANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,73017.1%
- 4K.S.SHANSDPI · SDPI1,6221.2%
- 5R.ARJUNANSUCI · SUCI1,4391.1%
- 6ADV.NASSAR.M.PYNGAMADO MIndependent · IND1,0530.8%
- 7A.ANSARIJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP9310.7%
- 8NASAR ARATTUPUZHAWPOI · WPOI8780.7%
- 9None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA6270.5%
- 10JOSEPH KUTTIKKADANIndependent · IND2660.2%
- 11P.G.SUGUNANIndependent · IND2310.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–JDU swing
- −37.5%
- CPM share
- 54.5% → 47.3%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- 79.6% → 78.9%