Dharmadam Constituency Result LIVE: Will Pinarayi Vijayan retain power in the state?
Dharmadam Kerala Election 2021 Results: His decades-long political acumen came to the fore as Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan led the ruling LDF to a thumping win over opposition UDF in the keenly fought April 6 assembly polls, bucking an over four decade old trend of power alternating between two fronts.
Severe organisational weaknesses of the Congress and the BJP’s foray into the traditional anti-Left support-base also helped the LDF coast to victory comfortably, winning 99 of the total of 140 seats so far.
A powerful administrator, Vijayan had rolled out a set of development and welfare measures to enable a spectacular come back for LDF from its drubbing in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, when it lost 19 out of the 20 seats.
The LDF also shed itshardline position on issues like the entry of women of menstruating age to the famous Sabarimala Ayyappa temple, regaining lost ground in the social spectrum.
Vijayan also convinced people that the LDF government was with them during crises by the manner in which it handled the devastating floods of 2018 and 2019 and the Nipah epidemic.
The Dharmadam Assembly Constituency of Kerala state is currently held by Pinarayi Vijayan of CPI (M). In the 2016 Kerala Assembly Elections, he beat Mambaram Divakaran of Congress by 36905 votes. Pinarayi Vijayan got 56.84 percent of the votes.
Dharmadam Constituency Result 2021:
| Kerala-DHARMADAM | ||||||||
| Result Status | ||||||||
| O.S.N. | Candidate | Party | EVM Votes | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % of Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C. K. Padmanabhan | Bharatiya Janata Party | 14352 | 271 | 14623 | 9.13 | ||
| 2 | Pinarayi Vijayan | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 92140 | 3382 | 95522 | 59.61 | ||
| 3 | C. Raghunathan | Indian National Congress | 44089 | 1310 | 45399 | 28.33 | ||
| 4 | Basheer Kannadiparamba | SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF INDIA | 2266 | 14 | 2280 | 1.42 | ||
| 5 | Chovva Raghunathan | Independent | 136 | 1 | 137 | 0.09 | ||
| 6 | Valayar Bhagyavathi | Independent | 1720 | 33 | 1753 | 1.09 | ||
| 7 | C. P. Maharoof | Independent | 66 | 6 | 72 | 0.04 | ||
| 8 | Vadi Harindran | Independent | 53 | 8 | 61 | 0.04 | ||
| 9 | NOTA | None of the Above | 390 | 10 | 400 | 0.25 | ||
| Total | 155212 | 5035 | 160247 | |||||
