The erosion of votes has happened in Left strongholds. For instance, in a party bastion like Thaliparamba in Kannur, represented by CPM state secretary MV Govindan in the assembly, UDF candidate K Sudhakaran managed to secure a lead of 8,787 votes. While LDF had secured 80,719 votes in the assembly segment in the 2019 LS election, it has come down to 75,544 votes this time. Also, LDF’s Kannur candidate MV Jayarajan could secure only wafer-thin leads of just 2,616 votes in Dharmadom where CM Pinarayi Vijayan had won with a margin of over 50,123 votes in 2021 assembly polls and 3,034 votes in Mattannur from where former health minister K K Shailaja won by the record margin of over 60,000 votes. In 10 constituencies, Left candidates were defeated by a whopping margin of over 1 lakh votes.
Political observers feel that the vote erosion in Left strongholds cannot be viewed as part of the traditional pattern where people generally prefer UDF in Parliament elections and has more to do with anti-incumbency against the Left govt in the state.
Also, the CPM campaign’s excessive focus on Muslim votes and underpinning its entire campaign on issues like CAA, the Gaza invasion and Uniform Civil code backfired. The party failed to win a single seat out of eight in the Malabar region that stretches from Kasargod to Palakkad, where all seats have over 25% Muslim population.
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