The 1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held in May 1996 to elect members to the

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. Polls were held simultaneously in all 140 seats and resulted in a voter turnout of 71.16%. LDF Chief Minister candidate and then Leader of opposition of out going assembly

V. S. Achuthanandan Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan (born 20 October 1923) is an Indian Communist politician who was the Chief Minister of Kerala from 2006 to 2011. At 82, he is the oldest person to have assumed the office. He served as the chairman of Admin ...

lost from

Mararikulam Mararikulam is a village in India, in the district of Alappuzha, Kerala state. Previously, it was a constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly, represented by notable legislators like T. M. Thomas Isaac, V. S. Achuthanandan , former intern ...

his sitting seat .. It's the first and only incident in Kerala that any chief ministerial candidate lost in election On 20 May 1996, the 14 member cabinet of

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led by E. K. Nayanar sworn in. Nayanar was not an elected member of the assembly at that time, and was later elected from Thalassery Constituency.

Results

By-constituency

: Bye Polls in 1996 : Bye Polls in 1998

References

External links

Kerala Assembly Election DATABASE
{{Kerala Niyamasabha elections

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