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All 140 seats in the Kerala Legislative Assembly 71 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map of the assembly constituencies in Kerala | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Legislative Assembly elections are expected to be held in Kerala in April 2026 to elect 140 members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
The tenure of Kerala Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 23 May 2026. [7] The previous assembly elections were held in April 2021. After the election, the incumbent Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front formed the state government again after winning 99 out of 140 seats in the assembly, with Pinarayi Vijayan sworn in as the Chief Minister. [8] [9]
| Poll event | Schedule |
|---|---|
| Notification date | TBD |
| Last date for filing nomination | TBD |
| Scrutiny of nomination | TBD |
| Last date for withdrawal of nomination | TBD |
| Date of poll | TBD |
| Date of counting of votes | TBD |
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | | | M.V. Govindan | TBD | |
| Communist Party of India | | | Binoy Viswam | TBD | |
| Kerala Congress (Mani) | | | Jose K. Mani | TBD | |
| Janata Dal (Secular) | | | Mathew T. Thomas | TBD | |
| Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) | | Thomas K. Thomas | TBD | ||
| Rashtriya Janata Dal | | | M. V. Shreyams Kumar | TBD | |
| Indian National League | | Ahamed Devarkovil | TBD | ||
| Congress (Secular) | | | Kadannappalli Ramachandran | TBD | |
| Kerala Congress (B) | | K. B. Ganesh Kumar | TBD | ||
| Janadhipathya Kerala Congress | | K. C. Joseph | TBD | ||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | | | Sunny Joseph | TBD | |
| Indian Union Muslim League | | | Sayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal | TBD | |
| Kerala Congress | | | P. J. Joseph | TBD | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | | | Shibu Baby John | TBD | |
| Democratic Congress Kerala | | Mani C. Kappan | TBD | ||
| Kerala Congress (Jacob) | | Anoop Jacob | TBD | ||
| Communist Marxist Party (John) | | | C. P. John | TBD | |
| Revolutionary Marxist Party of India | | N. Venu | TBD | ||
| National Janata Dal | | Adv John John | TBD | ||
| Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy | | | Rajan Babu | TBD | |
| All India Forward Bloc | | Manoj Mathew | TBD | ||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | | | Rajeev Chandrasekhar | TBD | |
| Bharath Dharma Jana Sena | | Thushar Vellapally | TBD | ||
| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | | Edappadi K. Palaniswami | TBD | ||
| Kerala Kamaraj Congress | | Vishnupuram Chandrasekharan | TBD | ||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinamool Congress | | | P. V. Anvar | ||
| Aam Aadmi Party | | | Adv Vinod Mathew Wilson | TBD | |
| Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of error | Lead | ||||
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| LDF | UDF | NDA | Others |
| Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of error | Lead | ||||
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| LDF | UDF | NDA | Others |
| Polling agency | Date published | Lead | ||||
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| LDF | UDF | NDA | Others | |||
| District | Seats | ||||
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| LDF | UDF | NDA | Others | ||
| Kasaragod | 5 | ||||
| Kannur | 11 | ||||
| Wayanad | 3 | ||||
| Kozhikode | 13 | ||||
| Malappuram | 16 | ||||
| Palakkad | 12 | ||||
| Thrissur | 13 | ||||
| Ernakulam | 14 | ||||
| Idukki | 5 | ||||
| Kottayam | 9 | ||||
| Alappuzha | 9 | ||||
| Pathanamthitta | 5 | ||||
| Kollam | 11 | ||||
| Thiruvananthapuram | 14 | ||||
| Total | 140 |