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207. Ottapalam

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996

IN-OTTAPALAM

CPM 47.5%won by 3.4%INC 44.1%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 3.4%.

  • TurnoutTurnout fell 3.1% to 65.9%.
  • 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
10,35,900
Turnout
65.9%
Valid votes
6,82,857
Margin
23,064
3.38%

Candidates

4 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1S. AJAYAKUMARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,24,02247.5%
  2. 2VIJAYALAKSHMI K KIndian National Congress · INC3,00,95844.1%
  3. 3K V KUMARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP49,2967.2%
  4. 4K AMBUJAKSHANJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP8,5811.3%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
CPMflipped
CPM–INC swing
+5.6%
CPM share
46.1% → 47.5%
INC share
48.3% → 44.1%
Turnout
69.0% → 65.9%
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