Constituency
85. Udumbanchola
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1980
KL-UDUMBANCHOLA
KEC 51.5%won by 7.2%IND 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedKerala Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.2% to 7.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.8% of the vote between them, up from 86.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
74,590
Margin
5,387
7.22%
Candidates
5 contested · winner KEC- 1THOMAS JOSEPHKerala Congress · KEC38,41751.5%
- 2PACHADY SREEDARANIndependent · IND33,03044.3%
- 3M. R. DAMODARANIndependent · IND2,7453.7%
- 4K. KORASANILP · ILP2450.3%
- 5K. S. PANICKARIndependent · IND1530.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- KEC
- Winner now
- KEC
- KEC–IND swing
- −35.6%
- KEC share
- 50.2% → 51.5%
- IND share
- 7.4% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —