Constituency
205. Trivandrum
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-TRIVANDRUM
INC 49.0%won by 6.8%IND 42.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.6% to 6.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from LKD (LKD) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.3% of the vote between them, up from 76.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.4% to 73.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,24,210
Turnout
73.3%
Valid votes
7,50,368
Margin
50,913
6.79%
Candidates
15 contested · winner INC- 1A. CHARLESIndian National Congress · INC3,67,82549.0%
- 2O. N. V. KURUPIndependent · IND3,16,91242.2%
- 3P. ASOK KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP56,0467.5%
- 4P. PARAMESWARAN NAIRIndependent · IND2,7050.4%
- 5NANTHANCODE SUKUMARANIndependent · IND2,0480.3%
- 6ALEXIndependent · IND9350.1%
- 7M. P. SAHIBIndependent · IND8350.1%
- 8SUBHASHITHAN NADARJNPJP · JNPJP7130.1%
- 9RAMESH KUMARIndependent · IND6380.1%
- 10THALIYAL VANAJANIndependent · IND4120.1%
- 11PURUSHOTHAMANIndependent · IND3280.0%
- 12K. ACHUTHANIndependent · IND2950.0%
- 13MADHUSOODHANANIndependent · IND2650.0%
- 14M. BALAJIIndependent · IND2340.0%
- 15SAINULABUDDINIndependent · IND1770.0%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −16.4%
- INC share
- 43.0% → 49.0%
- IND share
- 19.8% → 42.2%
- Turnout
- 70.9% → 73.3%