Kerala Assembly elections 2021 | Key winners and losers

The ruling Left Democratic Front, with a lead in 99 of 140 seats, has emerged as a decisive winner of 2021 Assembly elections. Congress-led United Democratic Front, which harboured ambitions of forming the federal government this spherical, was sidelined to a mere 41 seats, whereas BJP-led National Democratic Alliance has misplaced the one seat they’d gained in 2016 election.

Here are a few of the key winners and losers within the Kerala elections.

Winners:-

Pinarayi Vijayan

Communist Party of India (Marxist) chief and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. File
 
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan waltzed his manner into victory in Dharmadom with nearly double the variety of votes as his closest competitor, Congress’ C. Raghunathan. Mr. Vijayan is prone to proceed because the CM for a second time period, having efficiently led the celebration to a historic re-election.

K.K. Rema

The candidature of K.K. Rema of the RMP, who’s contesting from Vadakara as a UDF candidate, was introduced after a number of suspense and drama.  

The UDF-backed RMPI candidate K.K. Rema’s victory in Vadakara constituency is among the highlights of 2021 Assembly elections. Ms. Rema is the widow of slain Revolutionary Marxist Party of India chief T.P. Chandrashekharan. Her candidacy has typically been portrayed as an act of vengeance towards CPI(M) employees who murdered her husband, a CPI(M) dissident.

K.K. Shailaja

Health Minister K.K. Shailaja, who gained each accolades and brickbats for her dealing with of many well being emergencies just like the Nipah Virus and COVID-19 pandemic, gained from Mattannur by a margin of over 60,963 votes.

Mani C. Kappan

Mani C. Kappan
 

Mani C. Kappen, a sitting legislator who knocked down the KC(M) fort in Pala throughout the 2019 by-election, has continued his successful streak. The Assembly phase, represented by the KC(M) repeatedly for 54 years until 2019, swayed to the Left within the final by-election, because of Mr. Kappan.

Oommen Chandy

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi campaigning for Oommen Chandy, celebration candidate for the Puthuppally Assembly phase, at Manarcaud on Tuesday.
 

Oomen Chandy, who not too long ago accomplished his fiftieth anniversary as an MLA gained from his residence bastion – Puthupally, albeit with a slender margin compared to current years. In the run-up to the elections, the Congress veteran was thought-about for Nemom constituency, however finally determined to contest from his residence turf. Mr. Chandy brushed apart the decline in voteshare saying “it was lesser when he contested for the first time 50 years back”.

Ramesh Chennithala

Opposition Leader within the Kerala Assembly Ramesh Chennithala. File picture
 
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Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala emerged victorious but once more from Haripad securing a lead of 13,666 votes. The citizens has been loyal to Mr. Chennithala by the years. He had contested to the State Assembly from right here in 1982, 1987, 2011, and 2016, shedding not as soon as. In the 2016 election, he had gained by a margin of 18,621 votes.

Sachin Dev

LDF candidate Sachin Dev  

State Secretary of the Student Federation of India and LDF candidate in Balussery constituency K.M. Sachin Dev scored a whopping victory over actor Dharmajan Bolgatty, the UDF candidate, at a margin of greater than 20,000 votes.

Known for its socialist lineage, Balussery noticed its largest ever victory of current instances when Mr. Dev outperformed his predecessor Purushan Kadalundi’s victory margin of 15,464 votes.

Veena George

On marketing campaign path Veena George, sitting MLA and LDF candidate in Aranmula, poses for a selfie with the individuals of a Sivaratri procession at Mezhuveli in Pathanamthitta on Thursday. Leju Kamal
 

Veena George, a journalist turned politician, cemented her sway over Aranmula by retaining her seat with a margin of 13,853 votes. Going up towards Sivadasan Nair of UDF – her rival from 2016, the LDF candidate managed to raised her margin of seven,646 votes.

Losers

V.T. Balram

V.T. Balram
 
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UDF’s incumbent chief V.T. Balram, who had put up a spirited battle, misplaced to LDF’s M.B. Rajesh.

Balram, in search of a 3rd time period from Thrithala, confronted a tricky problem in Thrithala because the CPI(M) fielded former Lok Sabha MP Rajesh towards him.

Balram, in a Facebook publish he posted even earlier than the counting was over, conceded defeat to his CPI(M) rival. “I humbly accept peoples’ verdict in Thrithala. Best wishes to the new government,” he wrote.

Suresh Gopi

It was a tumultuous couple of hours for actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi, who was initially main within the Thrissur constituency. However, as counting proceeded, P. Balachandran of CPI(M) and Padmaja Venugopal of Congress went on to take the highest spot in flip. The tight three-way battle ended with Balachandran successful. Padmaja Venugopal got here in second, and Suresh Gopi was moved to the third spot by the citizens.

E. Sreedharan

E Sreetharan. File Photo.
 

‘Metro Man E. Sreedharan, one of many star candidates of the BJP, took an early lead in Palakkad constituency solely to lose to UDF incumbent Shafi Parambil. This is Shafi Parambil’s third time period as Palakkad MLA.

Kummanam Rajasekharan

BJP chief Kummanam Rajasekharan too suffered a destiny just like that of E. Sreedharan and Suresh Gopi. Though he had a promising preliminary lead in Nemom constituency, which, incidently is the celebration’s solely sitting seat in Kerala, he ended up shedding to V. Sivankutty of CPI(M).

Mr. Rajasekharan, who was the previous Governor of Mizoram, is the previous president of the celebration’s State unit.

K. Surendran

K. Surendran
 

BJP State president K. Surendran, who had contested from each Manjeshwaram and Konni, misplaced in each seats.

Mr. Surendran was anticipated to do nicely in Konni, whose electoral politics underwent an enormous shake-up following the Sabarimala protests in 2018. In the Parliament elections of 2019, the BJP had made vital positive factors from the phase although it was the Congress that held the lead.

Sabarimala had remained the important thing focus of its marketing campaign whereas the coalition can be hoping the welfare schemes rolled out by the Union authorities to show the tide in its favour.

Jose K. Mani

Jose K. Mani says not one of the Churches will intervene in mainstream politics.
 

Son of former Kerala Congress chief K.M. Mani, Jose K. Mani suffered a heavy loss in Pala, which was a Kerala Congress stronghold for over 5 many years.

He had resigned from Rajya Sabha to enter State politics. After an acrimonious break up from rival faction led by P.J. Joseph, he had contested from Pala as a candidate of the LDF.