Kerala Election Result 2021 | Mattannur Assembly Constituency: ‘Teacher’ Shailaja defeats RSP's Illikkal Augusthy by over 60,000 votes

Kerala Assembly Election 2021: CPI(M)'s KK Shailaja is leading in Mattannur constituency

Kerala Assembly Election 2021 Mattannur LIVE Updates: Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate KK Shailaja, who is also the Kerala Health Minister, faced a challenge from Illikkal Augusthy of Revolutionary Socialist Party of Kerala (Bolshevik), and Biju Elakkuzhi of the Bharatiya Janata Party, along with other independent candidates.

After a single phase of polling on April 6, amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, counting of votes is underway in Kerala. KK Shailaja won in Mattannur assembly constituency after defeating Illikkal Augusthy by 60,963 votes.

It is to be noted that counting is in progress and the lead stands to sway.

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In the 2016 Assembly elections, CPM leader EP Jayarajan had won from this seat by beating KP Prasanth of the Janata Dal (United) by a margin of 43,381 votes.

Jayarajan had won the 2011 Kerala Assembly elections too, by defeating Joseph Chaavara of the Socialist Janata Dal by a margin of 30,512 votes.

A total of five candidates had contested from the Mattannur constituency, including Shailaja, Elakkuzhi, and Augusthy. The remaining two are Rafeek Keechery of the Socialist Democratic Party of India and Agusthy NA, who is an independent candidate.

Counting of votes for the assembly polls is also underway across Assam, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and the Union Territory of Puducherry.

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