Constituency
6. Payyannur
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2026
KL-PAYYANNUR
IND 49.1%won by 4.8%CPM 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 4.8%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.2% to 49.1% of the vote here (+48.9%).
- 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,55,970
Margin
7,487
4.80%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1V. KUNHIKRISHNANIndependent · IND76,64049.1%
- 2T. I. MADHUSOODANANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM69,15344.3%
- 3A. P. GANGADHARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,4325.4%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA1,1930.8%
- 5SANDEEP V. K.Independent · IND5520.4%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPM swing
- +67.1%
- IND share
- 0.2% → 49.1%
- CPM share
- 62.5% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- 79.0% → —