Voters: 15,077

Polled: 14,224 (94.3%)

	Chengara Veetil DEVAN NAIR, 57 Union president [M]		John Santhirasekaran P. M. THEVAR, 30 Businessman [M]
11,564 (84.1%)		2,187 (15.9%)

Winner's majority: 9,377 (68.2%)

Valid votes: 13,751 (96.7%)

Rejected votes: 473 (3.3%)

Previous BE 1979: PAP won 86.2% (swing -2.1%)