2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
13 April 2011
All 140 seats in the Kerala Legislative Assembly
71 seats needed for a majority
Turnout75.26% ( 3.18 pp)
  First party Second party
 
Leader V S Achuthanandan Oommen Chandy
Party CPI(M) INC
Alliance LDF UDF
Leader since 31 August 2004
Leader's seat Malampuzha Puthuppally
Last election 48.63%, 61 seats 42.98%, 24 seats
Seats won 45 38
Seat change 16 14
Coalition vote 7,846,703 8,002,874
Percentage 44.94% 45.83%
Swing 3.69 pp 2.85 pp
Chief Minister before election

V. S. Achuthanandan
CPI(M)

Chief Minister

Oommen Chandy
INC

The thirteenth Kerala legislative assembly election was held on 13 April 2011 to elect members representing 140 constituencies in Kerala. Election results were released on 13 May 2011. The election proved to be one of the closest ones in Kerala's history, with the United Democratic Front (UDF) defeating the Left Democratic Front (LDF) by a margin of 4 seats.

Oommen Chandy was sworn in as the Chief Minister for the second time on 18 May 2011.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.