Constituency
215. Mavelikara
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-MAVELIKARA
INC 47.0%won by 3.4%CPM 43.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.1% to 3.4%.
- 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
8,80,820
Turnout
70.1%
Valid votes
6,17,809
Margin
21,076
3.41%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1P.J.KURIENIndian National Congress · INC2,90,52447.0%
- 2M.R.GOPALAKRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,69,44843.6%
- 3K. K. R. KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP45,3257.3%
- 4NIRANAM RAJANIndependent · IND5,7100.9%
- 5PRAKASH P.THOMASIndependent · IND5,6680.9%
- 6C.R.KAROLIIndependent · IND1,1340.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −0.7%
- INC share
- 49.1% → 47.0%
- CPM share
- 45.0% → 43.6%
- Turnout
- 71.9% → 70.1%