Constituency
193. Ottapalam
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-OTTAPALAM
INC 49.0%won by 3.7%CPM 45.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.5% to 3.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,46,025
Turnout
75.7%
Valid votes
7,16,077
Margin
26,187
3.66%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1K. R. NARAYANANIndian National Congress · INC3,50,68349.0%
- 2LENIN RAJENDRANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,24,49645.3%
- 3LAKSHMANANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP32,8924.6%
- 4M. NARAYANANJNPJP · JNPJP2,7520.4%
- 5PREMAKUMARAN K. V. RAMANIndependent · IND2,5440.4%
- 6MAANIIndependent · IND1,1210.2%
- 7C. P. APPUNNIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9230.1%
- 8ASOKAN CHUNGATHIndependent · IND6660.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −6.8%
- INC share
- 54.7% → 49.0%
- CPM share
- 44.3% → 45.3%
- Turnout
- 75.2% → 75.7%