Wadakkanchery election results 2026: CPI(M) Xavier Chittilappilly wins Wadakkanchery seat by over 5600 votes

Xavier Chittilappilly of CPI(M) secures Wadakkanchery, a Thrissur constituency with 5690 votes, beating INC candidate PN Vaisakh.Located in Kerala's Thrissur district amid paddy fields and bustling markets, the Wadakkanchery Assembly constituency ranks 65th among the state's 140 legislative seats, forming a vital part of the Alathur Lok Sabha (SC) region. This general seat mobilizes over 210,000 voters from a diverse Hindu-Ezhava-Christian rural-urban mix, consistently delivering turnouts around 76 percent, and encompasses Wadakkanchery town alongside grama panchayats in central Kerala's agrarian heartland. It represents a classic UDF-LDF battleground where CPI(M) recently broke INC's long dominance. In the 2021 Kerala Assembly elections, CPI(M)'s Xavier Chittilappilly secured victory with 81,026 votes (47.70per cent), defeating INC's Anil Akkara's 65,858 votes (38.77per cent) by a margin of 15,168 votes amid 76.17per cent turnout. The 2016 polls saw INC's Anil Akkara eke out a razor-thin win with 65,535 votes (41.02per cent) over CPI(M)'s Mary Thomas's 65,492 votes (40.99per cent) by just 43 votes, flipping from LDF's 2006 hold and underscoring the seat's knife-edge contests. As 2026 looms, Wadakkanchery's history of alternating UDF-LDF wins since the 1970s, driven by farming welfare and minority outreach, pits CPI(M)'s momentum against INC revival efforts and BJP's growing base. Irrigation projects and rural connectivity will define the stakes, keeping this Thrissur hotspot pivotal to central Kerala's electoral balance.