Kongad election results 2026: Congress candidate Thulasi Teacher wins the seat

KONGAD: In the Kongad constituency of Kerala, Congress candidate Thulasi Teacher has won the seat with 62,734 votes, edging out CPM's Adv. K.Santhakumari, who polled 59,028 votes. The margin between the two candidates stands at 3,706 votes. Thulasi Teacher, a 52-year-old postgraduate with a clean record, claimed the seat for Congress in what turned out to be a closely contested finish in this Kerala assembly segment.

Carved as a Scheduled Caste reserved seat in Kerala's Palakkad district, the Kongad Assembly constituency holds the 53rd position among the state's 140 legislative seats, feeding into the Palakkad Lok Sabha region.

This SC seat rallies over 180,000 voters from a diverse rural mix with significant Dalit representation around 23,000, achieving turnouts near 76-77 per cent, and encompasses Kongad town alongside grama panchayats in north Kerala's agrarian heartland. It fortifies LDF's dominance through CPI(M), prioritizing SC welfare amid UDF and BJP forays in this pivotal Palakkad pocket.

In the 2021 Kerala Assembly elections, CPI(M)'s K. Shanthakumari swept with 65,289 votes at 47.62per cent, trouncing IUML's U.C. Raman's 38,070 votes (27.77 per cent) by 27,219 votes amid 76.45 per cent turnout from 181,172 electors. The 2016 triumph belonged to CPI(M)'s K.V. Vijayadas with 60,790 votes (45.35 per cent), defeating INC's Pandalam Sudhakaran's 47,519 votes (35.45 per cent) by 13,271 votes from 173,779 voters, extending LDF's firm control.

Approaching 2026, Kongad's CPI(M) legacy since 2011, anchored in land reforms and SC upliftment, weathers UDF minority appeals and BJP's consolidation bids. Rural development and reservation equity will steer the discourse, cementing this LDF bastion's role in Palakkad's electoral equilibrium.
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