In 2014 Lok Sabha polls too, the Congress candidate K.V. Thomas had secured a lead of 9,324 votes in the Vypeen assembly segment. In that election BJP candidate polled 9,324 votes from the Vypeen constituency, a significant rise from a mere 2,930 votes received by the party in 2011 assembly elections.
However, in the 2015 local body elections, the LDF managed to win seven out of the eight grama panchayats in the constituency. The LDF has nominated its sitting MLA S. Sarma to contest the seat in 2016 assembly elections.
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