Constituency
126. Chathannur
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2021
KL-CHATHANNUR
CPI 43.1%won by 12.5%BJP 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.8% to 12.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
1,89,737
Turnout
72.5%
Valid votes
1,37,503
Margin
17,206
12.51%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1G.S. JAYALALCommunist Party of India · CPI59,29643.1%
- 2B. B. GOPAKUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP42,09030.6%
- 3N. PEETHAMBARAKURUPIndian National Congress · INC34,28024.9%
- 4None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA6420.5%
- 5SHANMUGHAN PARAVURADHRMP · ADHRMP5240.4%
- 6SUNU BHASKARANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3640.3%
- 7SETHUIndependent · IND1720.1%
- 8VARINJAM RAJEEVIndependent · IND1350.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BJP swing
- −13.3%
- CPI share
- 50.8% → 43.1%
- BJP share
- 24.9% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- 74.0% → 72.5%