UDF candidate Anoop Jacob wins by over 12,000 votes

March 21, 2012 11:14

In a boost to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, the ruling Congress-led UDF in Kerala today retained the Piravom assembly seat with its candidate Anoop Jacob winning by a margin of 12,070 votes.

While Anoop Jacob (Kerala Congress-Jacob), a constituent of the UDF, garnered 82,756 votes, LDF'S M J Jacob got 70,686 votes. BJP's K R Rajagopal polled 3241 votes.

There were nine canidates in the fray in the March 17 bypoll, whose outcome today has given a boost to Chandy, who is running the government with a wafer thin margin. Both the UDF and the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF)
had launched a stiff fight in the constituency, represented by Anoop's father and former minister T M Jacob. His death necessiated the bypoll.

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