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All 140 seats in the Kerala Legislative Assembly 71 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 80.54%(![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Kerala, India Kerala, one of the states in South India, has an electorate of more than 21 million people. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The elections to the Eighth Kerala Assembly were held on March 23, 1987. The UDF and the LDF were the two major political fronts in the arena. The UDF had the INC(I), IUML, KC(J), KC(M), NDP (P), SRP(S) and the RSP(S) as its constituents. The LDF consisted of the CPI(M), CPI, RSP, IC(S), Janata Party and the Lok Dal. [2]