In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Congress candidate from the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency and then sitting MP M.I. Shanavas had secured a comfortable lead in the Eranad assembly segment over his nearest Communist party of India (CPI) rival Sathyan Mokeri. IUML's sitting MLA P.K. Basheer has once again nominated by the party to contest the Eranad assembly seat in 2016 assembly elections. The BJP has nominated K.P. Baburajan who was also in the fray in 2011.
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