Constituency
200. Kasaragod
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-KASARAGOD
CPM 46.6%won by 9.4%INC 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.2% to 9.4%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.9% to 71.3%.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,19,715
Turnout
71.3%
Valid votes
7,97,847
Margin
74,730
9.37%
Candidates
20 contested · winner CPM- 1T. GOVINDANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,71,99746.6%
- 2I. RAMA RAIIndian National Congress · INC2,97,26737.3%
- 3P.K. KRISHNADASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP97,57712.2%
- 4T.M. KUNHIIndependent · IND4,4460.6%
- 5B.K. AHAMMED KUNHIIndependent · IND4,1550.5%
- 6ISMAIL ANDUMANIndependent · IND3,4440.4%
- 7A. VISHWANATHANIndependent · IND2,5500.3%
- 8AMBADI RAMANIndependent · IND2,3900.3%
- 9P.K. RAMANIndependent · IND2,1460.3%
- 10BALAKRISHNANIndependent · IND2,0270.3%
- 11ABBAS MUDALAPPARAIndependent · IND1,7340.2%
- 12VADAKKEDATH KESHAVANIndependent · IND1,7220.2%
- 13T.M. DEVAKI AMMA THIRUMUMBUIndependent · IND1,3860.2%
- 14MUHAMMED ALI KALNADIndependent · IND1,1100.1%
- 15NARAYANAN PALERIIndependent · IND8660.1%
- 16ABDUL AZEEZIndependent · IND7070.1%
- 17SHAMSUDDEEN MUHAMMED HAJIIndependent · IND6510.1%
- 18ISMAIL K.T. CHEMNADIndependent · IND6210.1%
- 19AKKARAMMAL KANTHANIndependent · IND5310.1%
- 20K. PADMARAJANIndependent · IND5200.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +8.1%
- CPM share
- 44.8% → 46.6%
- INC share
- 43.6% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- 74.1% → 71.3%