Kasargode, October 24: Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) candidate M.C.Kamurdeen on Thursday won the Manjeswaram Assembly constituency by 7,923 votes.

Like in the past elections, the BJP stood second and the CPI-M ended in the third place. In 2016, IUML's Abdul Razack had defeated his nearest BJP rival K.Surendran by a slender margin of 89 votes. Razack passed away last year.

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