State Politics in Contemporary India: Crisis or Continuity? by John R. Wood

Author:John R. Wood [Wood, John R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781000277128
Goodreads: 49931565
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

The 1982 Mid-Term Election: The Outcome

Political alignments in Kerala had changed significantly since the previous election when the LDF won a decisive victory over the UDF. On the whole, the changes were favorable to the UDF mainly because of the defection of the Congress(A) and the KCM from the LDF to the UDF. But the iarge number of BJP candidates was a new factor in Kerala politics. Since the BJP was likely to draw more voters from the UDF than from the LDF, confident prediction of the 1982 election result became difficult Yet, leaders of both fronts publicly expressed full confidence in the victory of their fronts. P.V. Kunhikannan, Coordinator of the LDF, claimed in late March that the LDF would win by a landslide. E.M.S. Namboodiripad in early May, and the CPM Kerala State Secretariat a few days before the election, made similar claims. The UDF leaders were more specific, though a bit boastful, in their claims. In late April, Karunakaran said that the UDF would win 110 seats out of the total of 140. Kidangur Gopalakrishna Pillai, leader of the NDP, repeated Karunakaran's claim. Later, M. Neelakantan Nair, Coordinator of the UDF, predicted that the UDF would get no less than 95 seats, and the LDF from 35 to 40 seats.

Table 5:2

Kerala State Assembly Section Results, 1982

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