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Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Congress releases first list of 55 candidates, former CM’s son also gets ticket
Samira Vishwas | March 18, 2026 3:24 AM CST

The Election Commission has announced the election dates in five states (West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry) including West Bengal. At the same time, political parties have also intensified preparations. Meanwhile, Congress is trying its best in Kerala. On Tuesday, Congress released its first list of 55 candidates for the Kerala Assembly elections. The big thing is that the party has expressed confidence in this list by giving a second chance to 20 sitting MLAs.

Ticket to former Chief Minister’s son also

Congress has given ticket to Chandy Oommen, son of former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, from Puthupalli. Whereas State Congress Committee President Sunny Joseph has been given ticket from Peravoor. Senior leader K. Muraleedharan has been made the candidate from Vattiyoorkau.

BJP had released the list of candidates on Monday

Let us tell you that on Monday, BJP had also released the first list of 47 candidates for the Kerala Assembly elections. In this list, K from Manjeshwar seat. Surendran has been fielded. Navya Haridas from Kozhikode North, Advocate George Kurien from Kanjirappalli, V. Muraleedharan from Kazhakootam and state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar from Nemom will contest.

kerala election date

Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in Kerala on 9 April 2026 to elect 140 members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. Counting of votes and results will be declared on 4 May 2026.


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