The CPI (M)-led LDF is hoping to wrest the seat from the UDF in the 2016 assembly elections. In 2015 local body elections, the LDF has won the Varkala municipality and six of the seven grama panchayats and the solitary block panchayat that are part of the Varkala assembly constituency. Under the seat sharing arrangement with the BJP has allotted the seat to Bharat Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS) which has fielded S.R Aji for 2016 assembly polls.
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