Constituency
12. Dharmadam
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2021
KL-DHARMADAM
CPM 59.6%won by 31.3%INC 28.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 24.0% to 31.3%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.1% to 80.2%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) 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
1,99,759
Turnout
80.2%
Valid votes
1,60,247
Margin
50,123
31.28%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1Pinarayi VijayanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM95,52259.6%
- 2C. RaghunathanIndian National Congress · INC45,39928.3%
- 3C. K. PadmanabhanBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,6239.1%
- 4Basheer KannadiparambaSDPI · SDPI2,2801.4%
- 5Valayar BhagyavathiIndependent · IND1,7531.1%
- 6None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA4000.2%
- 7Chovva RaghunathanIndependent · IND1370.1%
- 8C. P. MaharoofIndependent · IND720.0%
- 9Vadi HarindranIndependent · IND610.0%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.3%
- CPM share
- 56.8% → 59.6%
- INC share
- 32.8% → 28.3%
- Turnout
- 83.3% → 80.2%