Constituency
108. Kayamkulam
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-KAYAMKULAM
CPM 46.5%won by 7.6%INC 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.9% to 7.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.5% between them, down from 95.6% — 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
2,03,308
Turnout
77.1%
Valid votes
1,56,806
Margin
11,857
7.56%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1ADV.U.PRATHIBHA HARICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM72,95646.5%
- 2ADV.M.LIJUIndian National Congress · INC61,09939.0%
- 3SHAJI.M.PANICKERBDJS · BDJS20,00012.8%
- 4ADV.MUTTAM NAZARJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP1,1250.7%
- 5P.MANIYAPPAN ACHARIIndependent · IND7390.5%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4580.3%
- 7G.VEENAIndependent · IND1770.1%
- 8AJITH PIndependent · IND1590.1%
- 9LIJU.MIndependent · IND930.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +6.6%
- CPM share
- 48.3% → 46.5%
- INC share
- 47.3% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- 76.7% → 77.1%