Attingal: After a tough fight with LDF counterpart V Joy, sitting MP Adoor Prakash has won Attingal constituency of Kerala in the Lok Sabha elections. Prakash retained his seat by a margin of 1,708 votes. He polled 3,22,884 votes while the LDF candidate secured 3,21,176 votes.
Joy is the CPM District Secretary and Varkala MLA. Meanwhile, the presence of Union Minister V Muraleedharan has helped increase the BJP's vote share bringing the party to a close third. The BJP candidate has won 3,07,133 votes.
In the last election, the UDF's vote share was 37.87 per cent in the constituency, while it was 34.07 per cent for the LDF. BJP got 24.66 per cent votes.
Adoor Prakash, who contested for the Lok Sabha for the first time in 2019, defeated senior CPM leader A Sampath by 38,247 votes. While the UDF candidate got 3,80,995 votes, Sampath got 3,42,748 votes, and Shobha Surendran of the BJP received 2,48,081 votes.