Constituency
121. Punalur
Community mirrorKerala · Kerala Assembly Election, 2026
KL-PUNALUR
CPI 50.5%won by 15.1%IUML 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.3% to 15.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.5% — 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
1,42,556
Margin
21,529
15.10%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1C. AJAYAPRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI71,94450.5%
- 2NOUSHAD YOUNUSIndian Union Muslim League · IUML50,41535.4%
- 3ADV. REGHUNADH KAMUKUMCHERYTP · TP15,39310.8%
- 4NEDUMONCAVU GOPALAKRISHNANEPOI · EPOI1,5381.1%
- 5JOSE SARANATHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,4251.0%
- 6NOTANOTA · NOTA1,2810.9%
- 7K. MAHESHSUCOI · SUCOI5600.4%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–IUML swing
- −10.2%
- CPI share
- 55.0% → 50.5%
- IUML share
- 29.7% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- 69.4% → —