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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.

The 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held on 16 May 2016 to elect 140 MLAs to the 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly.

The constituencies to which election was held

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) (CPI(M)), won the election, defeating the incumbent United Democratic Front (UDF), led by the Indian National Congress (INC), which could only win 47 seats in the election. Pinarayi Vijayan was sworn in as the Chief Minister on 25 May.

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 (26 million) eligible voters including 6.18 lakh (618,000) 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 (SVEEP) programme was undertaken in Kerala to raise voter awareness.

Group of voters	Voters population
Male	12,510,580
Female	13,508,702
Third gender	2
Total voters	26,019,284

2,065 Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) 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.

Assembly constituencies of Kerala having VVPAT facility with EVMs
Kannur	Kozhikode North	Malappuram
Palakkad	Thrissur	Kottayam
Alappuzha	Kollam	Vattiyoorkkavu
Nemom	Ernakulam	Thrikkakkara

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

Flag	Seats contested	Male	Female
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Kodiyeri Balakrishnan	90	78	12
Communist Party of India	Kanam Rajendran	25	21	4
Janata Dal (Secular)	Mathew T. Thomas	5	4	1
Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy		4	4	0
Nationalist Congress Party	T. P. Peethambaran	4	4	0
Janadhipathya Kerala Congress	Francis George	4	4	0
Indian National League	S. A. Puthiya Valappil	3	3	0
Kerala Congress (B)	R. Balakrishna Pillai	1	1	0
Kerala Congress (Skaria Thomas)	Skariah Thomas	1	1	0
Communist Marxist Party (Aravindakshan)	K. R. Aravindakshan	1	1	0
Revolutionary Socialist Party (Leninist)	Kovoor Kunjumon	1	1	0
Congress (Secular)	Kadannappalli Ramachandran	1	1	0

United Democratic Front (Kerala)

Flag	Contesting Seats	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
Indian National Congress (Indira)	V. M. Sudheeran	87	78	9
Indian Union Muslim League	Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal	24	24	0
Kerala Congress (Mani)	K. M. Mani	15	15	0
Janata Dal (United)	M. P. Veerendra Kumar	7	7	0
Revolutionary Socialist Party	A. A. Aziz	5	5	0
Communist Marxist Party	C. P. John	1	1	0
Kerala Congress (Jacob)	Anoop Jacob	1	1	0

National Democratic Alliance

Flag	Contesting Seats	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
Bharatiya Janata Party	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai	98	88	10
Bharath Dharma Jana Sena	Thushar Vellappally	36	35	1
Kerala Congress (Thomas)	P. C. Thomas	4	4	0
Janadhipathya Samrakshana Samithi (Rajan Babu)	A. N. Rajan Babu	1	1	0
Janadhipathya Rashtriya Sabha	C. K. Janu	1	0	1

Party	Leader	Seats contested	Male	Female
Revolutionary Marxist Party	N. Venu	10	9	1
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	C. K. Lukose	32	27	5
Marxist Communist Party of India (United)	M. Rajan

Flag	Contested Seats
Social Democratic Party of India	K. M. Ashraf	88
Bahujan Samaj Party	J. Sudhakaran	74
Peoples Democratic Party	Abdul Nasar Madani	60
Welfare Party of India	Hameed Vaniyambalam	41
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star	M. K. Dasan	18
Shiv Sena	M.S. Bhuvanachandran	16
Samajwadi Party	N. O. Kuttappan	9
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	A. L. Pradeep	7
Ambedkarite Party of India		5
Indian Gandhiyan Party		3
Kerala Janatha Party		3
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation	Dipankar Bhattacharya	1

When conducted	Ref	Polling organisation/Agency	Sample size
15778	55–62	37%	75–82	41%	3–5	18%
N/A	49	N/A	89	N/A	2	N/A
N/A	66–72	42%	68–74	45%	0–2	10%
50000	56–62	37%	75–81	40%	3–5	18%
7020	70–75	N/A	63–67	N/A	0	N/A
60000	50–57	N/A	83–90	N/A	0	N/A
17460	51–59	40.6%	81–89	43.1%	0–3	14.1%

Agency	LDF	UDF	Others
Times Now-C Voter	74–82	54–62	0–8
India Today-Axis	88–101	38–48	1–7
News Nation	67–71	68–72	0–2
Today's Chanakya	75±9	57±9	8±5

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

Districts	Voter Turnout
	Kasaragod	78.51
Kannur	80.63
Wayanad	78.22
Kozhikode	81.89
Malappuram	75.83
Palakkad	78.37
Thrissur	77.74
Ernakulam	79.77
Idukki	73.59
Kottayam	76.90
Alappuzha	79.88
Pathanamthitta	71.66
Kollam	75.07
Thiruvananthapuram	72.53
Total	77.35

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.

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

Region wise map of Kerala	Region	Total Seats	UDF	LDF	NDA	OTH
	North Kerala	32	8	24	0	0
Central Kerala	55	25	30	0	0
South Kerala	53	14	37	1	1

District wise map of Kerala	District	Total Seats	UDF	LDF	NDA	OTH
	Kasaragod	5	2	3	0	0
Kannur	11	3	8	0	0
Wayanad	3	1	2	0	0
Kozhikode	13	2	11	0	0
Malappuram	16	12	4	0	0
Palakkad	12	3	9	0	0
Thrissur	13	1	12	0	0
Ernakulam	14	9	5	0	0
Idukki	5	2	3	0	0
Kottayam	9	6	2	0	1
Alappuzha	9	1	8	0	0
Pathanamthitta	5	1	4	0	0
Kollam	11	0	11	0	0
Thiruvananthapuram	14	4	9	1	0
Total	140	47	91	1	1

Parties and coalitions	Popular vote	Seats
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5,365,472	26.7	84	59
	Indian National Congress	4,794,793	23.8	87	21
	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,129,726	10.6	98	1
	Communist Party of India	1,643,878	8.2	25	19
	Indian Union Muslim League	1,496,864	7.4	23	18
	Kerala Congress (Mani)	807,718	4.0	15	5
	Bharath Dharma Jana Sena	795,797	4.0	36	0
	Independents(LDF)	487,510	2.4	8	4
	Janata Dal (United)	296,585	1.5	7	0
	Janata Dal (Secular)	293,274	1.5	5	3
	Nationalist Congress Party	237,408	1.2	4	2
	Independents (IND)	220,797	1.1	420	1
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	216,071	1.1	5	0
	Kerala Congress (Democratic)	157,584	0.78	4	0
	National Secular Conference	130,843	0.65	2	1
	Revolutionary Socialist Party (Leninist)	75,725	0.38	1	1
	Kerala Congress (Balakrishna Pillai)	74,429	0.37	1	1
	Kerala Congress (Jacob)	73,770	0.37	1	1
	Communist Marxist Party (Aravindakshan)	64,666	0.32	1	1
	Congress (Secular)	54,347	0.27	1	1
Total	20,232,718	100.00	1,203	140
Valid votes	20,232,718	99.97
Invalid votes	6,107	0.03
Votes cast / turnout	20,238,825	77.53
Abstentions	5,866,244	22.47
Registered voters	26,105,069

Notable performances of other candidates

01.P.C.George won from Poonjar Constituency with a margion 27821 votes

2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections

No by-election is conducted for Kuttanad and Chavara

Assembly seat sharing post – bye election results:

UDF	LDF	NDA	Vacant Seats
45	91	1	2

2015 Kerala local body elections
2020 Kerala local body elections
GoBackModi
Chief Electoral Officer, Kerala
Election Commission of India
Kerala Assembly Election 2016 Results Archived 16 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine
UDF Kerala
LDF Keralam
NDA Kerala

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