While exit polls had predicted some big-ticket losses for the UDF, the results are even more devastating for the ruling alliance. As many as four former ministers and the former speaker and deputy speaker of the Assembly are losing in their constituencies.
K Babu, the scam-tainted former excise minister, who contested from Tripunithura, was trailing behind M Swaraj of the LDF by 2,772 votes at 12.08 pm, according to the website of the Kerala Election Department. Reacting to the emerging results, he said, it was because the Congress lost the support of many voters belonging to minority communities.