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State: Kerala
Constituency: Badagara
Total Votes Polled: 825203
Winner: CPM O Bharathan 415895
Runner Up: INC Unnikrishnan K P 335950
Margin: 79945 (9.84%)

From 1971 till 1991 the portly K P Unnikrishnan, firstly of the Congress, then of the Congress-Urs and finally of the Congress-S, represented this constituency. In 1996, which he contested after joining the Congress, he was sent home by CPI-M veteran O Bharathan.

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