Constituency
12. Dharmadam
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2026
KL-DHARMADAM
CPM 49.9%won by 11.2%INC 38.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.3% to 11.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.7% — 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,71,659
Margin
19,247
11.21%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1PINARAYI VIJAYANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM85,61449.9%
- 2ADV. V.P ABDUL RASHEEDIndian National Congress · INC66,36738.7%
- 3K. RANJITHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,55510.8%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA8130.5%
- 5VADI HAREENDRANIndependent · IND1930.1%
- 6VIJAYAN A.M S/O KUNHIRAMANIndependent · IND1170.1%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −20.1%
- CPM share
- 59.6% → 49.9%
- INC share
- 28.3% → 38.7%
- Turnout
- 80.2% → —