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MALAMPUZHA: CPM candidate A Prabhakaran has won the Malampuzha assembly seat in Kerala, bringing the contest to a close with a margin of 19,721 votes over BJP’s C Krishnakumar, who polled 48,908 votes against Prabhakaran’s 68,629. The result is now officially declared in this Kerala constituency.Renowned for its dam and gardens in Kerala’s Palakkad district, the Malampuzha Assembly constituency occupies the 55th slot among the state’s 140 legislative seats, pivotal to the Palakkad Lok Sabha region. This general seat rallies over 210,000 voters from a mixed urban-rural populace with notable SC presence, sustaining turnouts around 75 per cent, and covers Malampuzha areas with adjacent panchayats in north Kerala’s industrial-agricultural belt.
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It epitomizes CPI(M)’s legendary stronghold within LDF, famously tied to veterans like V.S. Achuthanandan, defying UDF and surging BJP challenges. In the 2021 Kerala Assembly elections, CPI(M)’s A. Prabhakaran clinched 75,934 votes at 46.41 per cent, outpacing BJP’s C. Krishnakumar’s 50,200 votes (30.68 per cent) by 25,734 votes amid 75.04 per cent turnout. The 2016 race saw CPI(M)’s V.S. Achuthanandan E secure 73,299 votes (45.90 per cent), defeating the same BJP rival’s 46,157 votes (28.90 per cent) by 27,142 votes from nearly 190,000 voters, perpetuating LDF’s ironclad reign. Facing 2026, Malampuzha’s decades-long CPI(M) legacy since the 1970s, fueled by labor rights, irrigation clout, and anti-corruption appeals, braces against BJP’s vote consolidation and INC’s revival efforts. Tourism boosts and dam-centric development will sharpen the battle, anchoring this LDF citadel as Palakkad’s political lodestar. Go to Source
