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UDF records biggest victory margin over LDF

The mammoth 1,585,607 vote margin between the victorious Congress-led United Democratic Front and the vanquished Left Democratic Front in Kerala is the highest in the electoral history of the state.

Even in 1977, when the Congress-led front, which included the Communist Party of India and the Revolutionary Socialist Party, won a record 111 seats, the margin between the two coalitions was only 815,266 votes.

This assembly election the UDF won 99 seats with a substantial 10.7 per cent vote advantage.

The BJP and its allies, in the form of a third front which could not win a single seat, dropped 0.47 per cent of their votes.

In the previous elections in 1996, the LDF comfortably dislodged the UDF from power winning 80 seats. But the victory margin of the winning front was just 115,950 votes, 1.04 per cent of the total valid votes.

PTI

The Assembly Elections 2001: Kerala

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