Ponnani election results 2026: INC’s K P Noushad Ali wins by 13,267 votes

PONNANI: INC’s K P Noushad Ali wins Ponnani seat, defeats CPM’s Adv M K Sakkeer by 13,267 votesNoushad Ali secured 80,674 votes, while Sakkeer polled 67,407 votes.Straddling Kerala's Malappuram district along the Bharathapuzha's banks, the Ponnani Assembly constituency claims the 48th spot among the state's 140 legislative seats, anchoring its namesake Lok Sabha segment. This general seat marshals over 210,000 voters from a mixed Muslim-Hindu populace, yielding turnouts around 70 per cent, and envelops Ponnani town with coastal grama panchayats in north Kerala. It bucks the regional IUML trend as an LDF bastion, spotlighting CPI(M)'s enduring clout in this historic port hub. In the 2021 Kerala Assembly elections, CPI(M)'s P. Nandakumar stormed to 74,668 votes at 51.35 per cent, crushing INC's A.M. Rohit's 57,625 votes (39.63 per cent) by a hefty 17,043-vote margin with 69.58 per cent turnout. The 2016 fray saw CPI(M)'s P. Sreeramakrishnan bag 69,332 votes (48.91 per cent), powering past INC's P.T. Ajai Mohan's 53,692 votes (37.87 per cent) by 15,640 votes from nearly 190,000 voters, solidifying LDF's sequential triumphs. Facing 2026, Ponnani's LDF lineage since the 1980s, save UDF blips, hinges on agrarian reforms, fisheries welfare, and flood resilience. As IUML mounts counteroffensives through UDF channels, this counterpoint seat's fortunes could recalibrate north Kerala's delicate UDF-LDF equilibrium.