Constituency
119. Kottarakkara
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2026
KL-KOTTARAKKARA
CPM 42.9%won by 0.7%INC 42.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.2% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 1,012 votes (0.68%) — 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
1,48,854
Margin
1,012
0.68%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1K.N. BALAGOPALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM63,92642.9%
- 2ADV.P. AISHA POTTYIndian National Congress · INC62,91442.3%
- 3R. RESMIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,66413.9%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA6110.4%
- 5MAMACHAN DANIELAam Aadmi Party · AAP3860.3%
- 6WILFRED ZACHARIASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2360.2%
- 7SURESH. GEPOI · EPOI1170.1%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −6.6%
- CPM share
- 46.0% → 42.9%
- INC share
- 38.8% → 42.3%
- Turnout
- 72.3% → —