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The Indian general election, 2014 polls in Kerala were held for the twenty Lok Sabha seats in the state on 10 April 2014. The total voter strength of Kerala is 24,251,937 and the percentage of voters who exercised their right was an impressive 74.04%. The results of the elections were declared on 16 May 2014.
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Background
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government under the premiership of Dr. Manmohan Singh completed its second term in May 2014 and general election was conducted to form a government to head the largest democracy in the world. The United Democratic Front (UDF), aligned to the national coalition of the UPA, the incumbent ruling alliance in the state legislature after wresting power from the Left Democratic Front (LDF), in the state assembly election of 2011. The buildup to this election saw parties shifting allegiance from both the prominent coalitions.
Alliances and parties
As in the previous general elections in the recent history of the state, the key alliances that fought for representation of Lok Sabha seats in Kerala in the 2014 general election are the UDF which is the Kerala state legislative alliance aligned with the UPA at the national level and the LDF comprising primarily the CPI(M) and the CPI. The nationally relevant National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has not had any success in general elections in Kerala so far but set up their candidates in all constituencies of the state. A new force in the election is the Left United Front. The debutante Aam Aadmi Party fielded candidates in fifteen of the twenty seats.
United Democratic Front
The United Democratic Front alliance saw the addition of two parties since the previous general election of 2009 while parting ways with one party that did not have any representation in the state legislature. The SJ(D) joined the UDF in August 2010 splitting away from its parent, the Janata Dal (S) while the left leaning RSP docked itself to the UDF in March 2014, after the announcement of the general election.
Left United Front
The Left United Front was launched in March 2014, by the Revolutionary Marxist Party, the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) and the Marxist Communist Party of India (United).
Constituency-Wise Voter Turnout
Based on data from Election Commission India
Constituency-wise detailed results
Based on the data from Chief Electoral Officer, Kerala
Assembly-Segment-wise detailed results in each Loksabha Constituency
Based on the data from Chief Electoral Officer, Kerala
Statistics:
AC Leads (First position): UDF 80 [INC 57, IUML 11, KC(M) 7, RSP 4, SJ(D) 1]; LDF 56 [CPI(M) 36, CPI 9, IND-LDF 11]; BJP 4
AC Leads (Second position): UDF 60 [INC 48, IUML 3, RSP 3 SJ(D) 6] LDF 78 (CPI(M) 32, CPI 15, IND-LDF 24, JD(S) 7]; BJP 2