Constituency
64. Manalur
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2026
KL-MANALUR
CPM 38.1%won by 0.1%INC 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.8% to 0.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 126 votes (0.07%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
1,71,387
Margin
126
0.07%
Candidates
11 contested · winner CPM- 1PROF C RAVINDRANATHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,33738.1%
- 2T N PRATHAPANIndian National Congress · INC65,21138.0%
- 3ADV K K ANEESHKUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP38,12522.2%
- 4JILEEF (DILEEF ABDUL KHADAR)SDPOI · SDPOI1,0310.6%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA6760.4%
- 6DR UNNIKRISHNAN CHIRAYATHAam Aadmi Party · AAP3300.2%
- 7RAVINDRANATH KIndependent · IND2340.1%
- 8PRATHAPAN(S/O AYYAPPAN)Independent · IND1840.1%
- 9SIVAPRASAD GANDHI K MIGP · IGP1180.1%
- 10P V CHANDRANIndependent · IND710.0%
- 11SUJITHIndependent · IND700.0%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −17.8%
- CPM share
- 46.8% → 38.1%
- INC share
- 28.9% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- 73.2% → —