Constituency
199. Kottayam
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-KOTTAYAM
KEC 49.5%won by 1.4%INCI 48.1%
What changed here
DerivedKerala Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.1% to 1.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 48.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.6% of the vote between them, up from 91.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 21.4% to 57.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,59,430
Turnout
57.8%
Valid votes
3,81,181
Margin
5,375
1.41%
Candidates
5 contested · winner KEC- 1SKARIA THOMASKerala Congress · KEC1,88,67649.5%
- 2K.M. CHANDYINCI · INCI1,83,30148.1%
- 3THOMAS KURIAKOSEIndependent · IND5,8231.5%
- 4CHELLAPPAN APPUKUTTANIndependent · IND2,2950.6%
- 5ALEXANDER LUKOSEIndependent · IND1,0860.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- KEC
- Winner now
- KEC
- KEC–INCI swing
- −51.7%
- KEC share
- 53.1% → 49.5%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 48.1%
- Turnout
- 79.2% → 57.8%