Constituency
202. Badagara
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-BADAGARA
CPM 51.2%won by 9.8%INC 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Ics (Scs) (ICSSCS) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 9.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 51.2% of the vote here (+51.2%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 41.3% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.5% between them, down from 97.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.2% to 74.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,89,716
Turnout
74.6%
Valid votes
8,12,773
Margin
79,945
9.84%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1O. BHARATHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,15,89551.2%
- 2UNNIKRISHNAN K.P.Indian National Congress · INC3,35,95041.3%
- 3A.D. NAIRBharatiya Janata Party · BJP49,9716.1%
- 4KALANTHAN HAJI T.K.Independent · IND3,2480.4%
- 5AHAMMED DEVARKOVILIndependent · IND2,0680.3%
- 6KARUNAKARANJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP1,9250.2%
- 7KUNNATH AHMEDIndependent · IND1,4980.2%
- 8VADAKKE CHALIL RANJITHIndependent · IND8250.1%
- 9C.V. DAYANANDANSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP7210.1%
- 10ILLATH JALEELIndependent · IND6720.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- ICSSCS
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +9.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 51.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- 76.8% → 74.6%