2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election


The 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held on 16 May 2016 to elect 140 MLAs to the 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly. Voter turnout was 77.53%, up from 75.12% in the previous election. The result was declared on 19 May 2016. The Left Democratic Front (LDF), led by Communist Party of India (Marxist), won the election, defeating the incumbent United Democratic Front (UDF), led by the Indian National Congress, which could only win 47 seats in the election. Pinarayi Vijayan was sworn in as the Chief Minister on 25 May.

Background

The tenure of the members of the Legislative Assembly in the state was to end on 31 May 2016.
As per the voters list published on 14 January 2016, there were around 2.60 crore eligible voters including 6.18 lakh new voters in the age group 18–21. Elections to the 140-member assembly were held in 21,498 polling stations set up at 12,038 locations. There were 500 model polling stations. Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation programme was undertaken in Kerala to raise voter awareness.
Group of votersVoters population
Male12,510,580
Female13,508,702
Third gender2
Total voters26,019,284

2,065 Voter-verified paper audit trail units were used by the Election Commission in 1,650 polling stations in 12 constituencies. VVPAT were not used in Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Wayanad and Kasaragod districts.
The Election Commission launched several mobile apps.

Parties and coalitions

There are two major political coalitions in Kerala. The Left Democratic Front is the coalition of the left-wing and far-left parties, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The United Democratic Front is the coalition of centrist and centre-left parties led by the Indian National Congress.

Election Day

Voting took place on 16 May 2016 in all 140 Legislative Assembly Constituencies. The final turnout was 77.35%.

Results

The Left Democratic Front won in a landslide in terms of seats, winning 91 out of 140 seats in the legislature. The incumbent UDF front was defeated and was reduced to 47 seats. The NDA, and independent P. C. George won one seat each.

By alliance

P.C. George, who contested as an independent candidate from Poonjar, joined the NDA on a later date.

Results by party


! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Parties and coalitions
! colspan="2" | Popular vote
! colspan="2" | Seats
! Votes
! %
! Candidates
! Won
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Results by constituency

Notable performances of other candidates
01.P.C.George won from Poonjar Constituency with a margion 27821 votes

By-elections

YearConstituencyDistrictUDF candidatePartyVotesLDF candidatePartyVotesNDA candidatePartyVotesWinnerMarginPrevious Winning AllianceWinning AllianceWinning party
2017VengaraMalappuramK.N.A. KhaderIUML65227P.P.BasheerCPI41917K JanachandranBJP5728K.N.A. Khader24123UDFUDFIUML
2018ChengannurAlappuzhaD.VijayakumarINC46347Saji CherianCPI67303P. S. Sreedharan PillaiBJP35270Saji Cherian20956LDFLDFCPI
2019ManjeshwaramKasaragodM. C. KamaruddinIUML65407M Shankara RaiCPI38233Ravisha Thanthri KuntarBJP57484M. C. Kamaruddin7923UDFUDFIUML
2019PalaKottayamJose Tom PulikunnelUDF Independent51194Mani C. KappanNCP54137N.HariBJP18044Mani C. Kappan2943UDFLDFNCP
2019VattiyoorkavuThiruvananthapuramK. Mohan KumarINC40365V. K. PrasanthCPI54830Adv S SureshBJP27453V. K. Prasanth14465UDFLDFCPI
2019KonniPathanamthittaP MohanrajINC44146K. U. Jenish KumarCPI54099K. SurendranBJP39786K. U. Jenish Kumar9953UDFLDFCPI
2019AroorAlappuzhaShanimol UsmanINC69356Manu C. PulikkalCPI67277K.P.Prakash BabuBJP16289Shanimol Usman2079LDFUDFINC
2019ErnakulamErnakulamT. J. VinodINC37891Adv. Manu RoyLDF Independent34141C.G.RajagopalBJP13351T. J. Vinod3750UDFUDFINC

No by-election is conducted for Kuttanad and Chavara
Assembly seat sharing post – bye election results:
UDFLDFNDAVacant Seats
459112