Constituency
121. Punalur
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2021
KL-PUNALUR
CPI 55.0%won by 25.3%IUML 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.2% to 25.3%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.6% between them, down from 90.5% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India 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
2,10,857
Turnout
69.4%
Valid votes
1,46,251
Margin
37,057
25.34%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1P S SUPALCommunist Party of India · CPI80,42855.0%
- 2ABDURAHIMAN RANDATHANIIndian Union Muslim League · IUML43,37129.7%
- 3AYOOR MURALIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,06913.7%
- 4None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA6880.5%
- 5SHIBU M SKARIAIndependent · IND6170.4%
- 6PRAKASH ANCHALADHRMP · ADHRMP4070.3%
- 7K MAHESHSUCI · SUCI4070.3%
- 8THENMALA NAGARAJANIndependent · IND2640.2%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–IUML swing
- +2.1%
- CPI share
- 56.9% → 55.0%
- IUML share
- 33.6% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- 70.6% → 69.4%