Constituency
4. Kanhangad
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2026
KL-KANHANGAD
CPI 45.5%won by 8.7%KEC 36.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.3% to 8.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerKerala Congress (KEC) finished second with 36.8% — it did not contest here in 2021.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,75,777
Margin
15,316
8.71%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1ADV. GOVINDAN PALLIKAPPILCommunist Party of India · CPI79,92045.5%
- 2SHAIJI OTTAPALLIKerala Congress · KEC64,60436.8%
- 3M BALRAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP27,06315.4%
- 4VIJAYAKUMAR BBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,1321.8%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,0580.6%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–KEC swing
- −42.0%
- CPI share
- 50.7% → 45.5%
- KEC share
- 0.0% → 36.8%
- Turnout
- 74.5% → —