Constituency
196. Ernakulam
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-ERNAKULAM
INC 49.9%won by 4.7%IND 45.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.8% to 4.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from ICS (ICS) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.0% of the vote between them, up from 88.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.0% to 80.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,61,739
Turnout
80.3%
Valid votes
7,72,264
Margin
36,465
4.72%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1K. V. THOMASIndian National Congress · INC3,85,17649.9%
- 2P. SUBRAMNOIAN POTIIndependent · IND3,48,71145.2%
- 3A. N. RADHAKRISHNANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP29,1623.8%
- 4JOHN JOSEPHIndependent · IND2,0290.3%
- 5KALOOR JOSEPHIndependent · IND1,1080.1%
- 6N. V. MATHEWJNPJP · JNPJP1,0950.1%
- 7M. VELAYUDHANIndependent · IND1,0660.1%
- 8K. O. JOHNYIndependent · IND8560.1%
- 9KALLARA SUKUMARANIndependent · IND7480.1%
- 10V. R. MENONIndependent · IND7390.1%
- 11K. V. SURESHIndependent · IND5950.1%
- 12PREMAKUMAR KRISHNANIndependent · IND5580.1%
- 13C. R. BALAKRISHNANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4210.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −43.7%
- INC share
- 50.6% → 49.9%
- IND share
- 2.2% → 45.2%
- Turnout
- 75.3% → 80.3%