Constituency
200. Idukki
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-IDUKKI
CPM 49.4%won by 1.9%IND 47.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 1.9%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 49.4% of the vote here (+49.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from KCP (KCP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.0% of the vote between them, up from 90.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 18.2% to 53.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,97,106
Turnout
53.6%
Valid votes
3,74,001
Margin
7,033
1.88%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1M.M. LAWRENCECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,84,91949.4%
- 2T.S. JOHNIndependent · IND1,77,88647.6%
- 3MECHAL KALLIVAYALILIndependent · IND7,5242.0%
- 4K. KORASON EASOIndependent · IND1,3330.4%
- 5P. SREEDHARAN PILLAIIndependent · IND1,2180.3%
- 6JANARDHANAN NAIR RAMAN PILLAIIndependent · IND1,1210.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- +8.1%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 49.4%
- IND share
- 6.2% → 47.6%
- Turnout
- 71.9% → 53.6%