Kerala Election 2021 Winning Candidates Full List: CPM-led LDF wins 99 seats; check winners, losers, constituency performance

Bucking an over four-decade-old trend of power alternating between the CPM-led Left Democratic Front and the Congress-led United Democratic Front, the incumbent Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan led the ruling LDF to win over opposition UDF in the keenly fought 6 April Assembly polls. The two main constituents of the LDF, the CPI(M) and the CPI, had won 79 seats, comfortably exceeding the magic number of 71 required to form government in the 140-member assembly.

“I thank the people of Kerala for reposing faith in an unprecedented manner in the way that the previous LDF government tackled all the challenges that the people have faced and also the pandemic scourge. The government gave a Kerala model to the world on how to handle the pandemic,” CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said. IN the LDF camp, Kerala Devaswom minister Kadakampally Surendran won from Kazhakootam by a margin of 23,497 votes. Kerala health minister KK Shailaja who was applauded globally for controlling the first wave of COVID-19 cases in the state won by a record Among the prominent losers was ‘Metroman’ E Sreedharan, who had joined the BJP with much fanfare ahead of the elections. With the final results expected later, here’s the list of winners and losers constituency-wise: