Kerala: LDF's Mani Kappan wins Pala bye-polls
Pala (Kerala) [India], Sept 27 (ANI): Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate Mani C Kappan registered a win in the Pala assembly by-polls by a margin of over 2,900 votes. The counting of votes was taken up on Friday morning.
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Sep 27, 2019 15:40 IST
Pala (Kerala) [India], Sept 27 (ANI): Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate Mani C Kappan registered a win in the Pala assembly by-polls by a margin of over 2,900 votes. The counting of votes was taken up on Friday morning.
According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), Kappan had bagged 54,137 votes by around 2:28 pm. However, United Democratic Front candidate Advocate Jose Tom did give him a tough competition tailing him with 51,194 votes.
An estimated voter turnout of 71.43 per cent was recorded at 176 polling booths spread across the Pala constituency in the bye-polls held on September 21.
A total of 13 candidates were in the fray, including Tom Jose of United Democratic Front, Mani C Kappan of Left Democratic Front and N Hari of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The bye-election was necessitated in Pala following the death of Kerala Congress (M) leader KM Mani in April this year. He had represented Pala constituency for over 50 years. (ANI)
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