Constituency
124. Kollam
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2016
KL-KOLLAM
CPM 48.8%won by 13.6%INC 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.5% to 13.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.0% between them, down from 94.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.9% to 74.9%.
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Electorate
1,72,552
Turnout
74.9%
Valid votes
1,29,283
Margin
17,611
13.62%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1M MUKESHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM63,10348.8%
- 2SOORAJ RAVIIndian National Congress · INC45,49235.2%
- 3PROF. K. SASIKUMARIndependent · IND17,40913.5%
- 4JOHNSON KANDACHIRASDPI · SDPI1,5761.2%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA8890.7%
- 6K. BALAKRISHNANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4310.3%
- 7NARAYANAN NAIRIndependent · IND2090.2%
- 8S. CHANDRANIndependent · IND1740.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +6.1%
- CPM share
- 50.9% → 48.8%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- 71.0% → 74.9%