Kerala Assembly Elections 2021

All the exit polls had predicted a clean victory for the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left with a minimum of 75 seats and a maximum of 120 seats.

• •  05:00 PM: Kerala Health Minister K K Shailaja on way to win with record margin. She is going forward to secure the highest margin of victory in an assembly election when her margin crossed 60,000 votes.

• 03: 58 PM: Left leads in 100 seats out of 140 seats 

• 02:00 PM: LDF leads in 85 seats, Congress-headed UDF 44 segments, BJP-NDA in 3 constituencies
  

• 12:00 PM: Ex-state BJP chief Kummanam Rajasekharan leading in Nemom

Thiruvananthapuram: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state chief and the party candidate from Nemom, Kummanam Rajasekharan is leading from his constituency as counting of votes is underway in Kerala.

Rajasekharan, who was also the former Mizoram Governor, is contesting against V Sivankutty of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and MP K Muraleedharan of the Congress.

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• 11:32 AM: CPI-M leads on 56 seats, Congress 23 seats

• 10:45 AM: CPI-M leads on 38 seats

• 10:26 AM: Left leads in Kerala as UDF trails, BJP moves in 2 seats

Thiruvananthapuram: In the 140-member Kerala Assembly, according to the latest reports the Left leads in 80 constituencies while the Congress-led UDF is ahead in 58 and the BJP in two seats.

All the exit polls had predicted a clean victory for the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left with a minimum of 75 seats and a maximum of 120 seats.

The pattern in what has been seen so far is there are quite a number of seats where the balance is shifting between the Left and the Congress-led UDF candidates.

The BJP which presently has one seat at Nemom in Thiruvananthapuram, continues to lead and so is Metroman E.Sreedharan at the Palakkad constituency.

By now on an average two to three rounds of counting has been over and there are about 13 to 15 rounds in each constituency, and in the constituencies where the fight is close, one will have to wait till the last rounds to be counted.

All the leaders are leading, including Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Oommen Chandy, Ramesh Chennithala but two Ministers J.Mercykutty and T.P. Ramakrishnan are trailing.

At Badagara, K.K. Rema, the wife of slain former CPI-M leader T.P. Chandrashekeran, who has been supported by the UDF, is leading with over 3,000 votes.

• 09:55 AM: Metroman Sreedharan leads with 2,000 votes

Thiruvananthapuram: Counting of votes began at 8 a.m. on Sunday in Kerala and in the initial rounds Metroman E.Sreedharan of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading in the Palakkad Assembly constituency with over 2,000 votes.

Sreedharan was able to bag a sizeable number of postal votes and was able to maintain a lead when the EVMs were opened.

Reports coming from Palakkad indicate that Sreedharan was able to garner votes from two wards where Congress won in the December local body polls.

Sreedharan on expected grounds got more votes than two of the other candidates from the traditional rivals.

Incidentally, the exit polls had predicted a very close fight between the Congress candidate Shafi Parambil and Sreedharan and the Left’s candidate placed at third position.

In the 2016 Assembly polls, when Parambil won, the then BJP candidate had finished second.

• 09:41 AM: LDF leads in 75 seats in Kerala; UDF 56

Thiruvananthapuram: The ruling LDF in Kerala was leading in 75 of the total 140 seats while opposition UDF was ahead in 56 segments as counting of votes for the April 6 assembly elections got underway on Sunday.

Initial trends indicated that the BJP-led NDA is ahead in two seats-Palakkad, where ‘Metroman’ E Sreedharan is contesting and Nemom, the lone seat won by the saffron party in the 2016 assembly polls.

Early leads showed that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Health Minister K K Shailaja, former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala were leading in their respective constituencies, while BJP state chief K Surendran was trailing in both the seats-Konni and Manjeswaram- he contested.

As per the Election Commission website, the ruling CPI(M) was leading in five, CPI in two and the opposition Congress in five.

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