A total of 76.82% of 2.61 crore voters on April 23 exercised their franchise to elect 20 Lok Sabha members from Kerala.
It is a do-or-die battle for both the ruling CPI(M)-led LDF and Opposition Congress-headed UDF in most of the 20 LS seats this time in the State, known for its decades-long bipolar politics.
The BJP-led NDA is posing a formidable challenge to the two traditional fronts in at least three constituencies — Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta and Thrissur.
The saffron party is hoping to capitalise on the Sabarimala women entry issue and ensure the Lotus blooms this time from the State in the Lower House of Parliament.
The 2019 Kerala Lok Sabha election results have rendered a severe blow to the Left Democratic Front (LDF), which was hoping to win an impressive tally, and dashed the hopes of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that had claimed to open its account in the State
The LDF was forced to be content with one seat, Alappuzha. The ruling coalition lost its traditional bastions such as Alathur, Palakkad, Kannur, Kasargod, Vadakara and Attingal. While the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) got one seat, the CPI drew a blank. Right from the launch of the campaign itself, the LDF had been expecting to retain at least three seats in the south, and sustain its unchallenged supremacy in north Kerala.
Kerala’s electorate seems to have dashed the political ambitions of stars-turned-politicians in this Lok Sabha election.
Actor-turned-politicians Innocent of the Left Democratic Front and Suresh Gopi of the National Democratic Alliance were trailing in Chalakudy and Thrissur Lok Sabha constituencies respectively according to the Election Commission’s data as on 12 noon on Thursday May 23,2019
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