Thiruvananthapuram:The Congress-led UDF tasted defeat at the hands of the ruling LDF headed by the CPI-M in its strongholds of Vattiyoorkavu and Konni, while it retained two seats and won from the Marxist bastion of Aroor in the October 21 by-polls to five assembly seats in Kerala.
The BJP was blanked out.
Thiruvananthapuram Mayor V K Prasanth won from Vattiyoorkavu by a margin of over 14,465 votes against his nearest Congress rival K Mohankumar.
While Prasanth polled 54,830 votes, K Mohankumar bagged 40,365 votes and BJP's S Suresh garnered 27,453 votes.
Vattiyoorkavu was held by senior congress leader K Muraleedharan for two terms since 2011 when the constituency was formed.
Another UDF bastion, Konni, went to the LDF kitty with its candidate K U Jenish Kumar winning by 9,953 votes.
Jenish Kumar bagged 54,099 votes against P Mohanraj (Cong) who got 44,146 votes.
BJP's K Surendran managed to poll 39,786 votes.
Konni was represented by Congress leader and former minister Adoor Prakash since 1996.
However, the LDF tasted defeat at Aroor, a CPI(M) stronghold where UDF's Shanimol Usman, who had unsuccessfully contested the April Lok Sabha poll from Alappuzha, won with a margin of 2079 votes.
Shanimol Usman won the seat defeating her nearest rival Manu C Pulickal of the LDF by a margin of 2,079 votes.
She polled 69,356 votes while Pulickal 67,277 votes. BJP candidate Prakash Babu bagged only 16,289 votes.
In a tweet, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan thanked the people of Kerala for the support given to the policies of the LDF government.
"Thank you, Kerala. We are humbled by your support for the Government. The Left Democratic Front has made significant gains. Kerala has once again rejected the politics of hate and reiterated its commitment to progressive politics.