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The Left Democratic Front (LDF), which successful the past 2 days, has been attempting to survey the basal causes of the autumn of implicit 20 seats successful its tally successful the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation successful the section assemblage polls, is taking immoderate consolation from the information that the front’s ballot stock has not fallen successful proportion. Sources from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] are besides pointing astatine the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) numbers successful the wards won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to bolster their assertion that the LDF’s decision had much underlying reasons than what was obvious.
In implicit 40 of the 50 seats which the BJP had won, the UDF had turned up third, with the Congress-led beforehand not managing to get much than 1,000 votes successful arsenic galore arsenic 25 wards. In immoderate wards, the UDF did not negociate to get adjacent 500 votes. This scenario, according to the sources, has made the quality successful a fewer wards successful which the BJP won by margins of little than 100 votes.
On Monday, CPI(M) John Brittas tweeted a examination betwixt the fig of votes received by the 3 large fronts successful the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the 2025 section assemblage polls to assertion that the LDF’s ballot stock really went up. According to him, the BJP’s ballot stock went down from 2,13,214 votes successful the 2024 polls to 1,65,891 votes successful the 2025 section assemblage polls, portion that of the UDF went down from 1,84,727 to 1,25,984 votes. On the different hand, the LDF’s went up from 1,29,048 to 1,67,522 votes.
Though the voting patterns alteration importantly betwixt Lok Sabha and section assemblage elections, Mr. Brittas wrote that those including Congress Working Committee subordinate and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, who are creating a communicative of “historic show of the BJP,” are ignoring the world evident successful the figures.
