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A UDF bastion that went the LDF way last time
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In 2016, K.J. Maxi won by a slender margin of 1,086 votes
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In 2016, K.J. Maxi won by a slender margin of 1,086 votes When the Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate K.J. Maxi won from the Kochi constituency in the last Assembly election, it was an aberration of sorts.
For, the constituency in its earlier avatar as Mattancherry and then as Kochi from the 2011 Assembly election following the delimitation exercise, has always been a United Democratic Front (UDF) bastion.
Before Mr. Maxi’s victory, the LDF was able to breach it only in 1996 when M.A. Thomas emerged victorious as an LDF-backed Independent. But even Mr. Maxi’s victory was by a slender margin of 1,086 votes despite the rumblings within the Congress against the candidature of Dominic Presentation. That the Congress rebel candidate M.J. Leenus and even NOTA (None Of The Above) polled 7,588 votes and 1,002 votes respectively put the r