Constituency
217. Quilon
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-QUILON
RSP 49.8%won by 10.8%INC 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 10.8%.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 46.6% to 49.8% of the vote here (+3.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.7% between them, down from 97.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.4% to 70.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,22,175
Turnout
70.7%
Valid votes
7,22,694
Margin
78,370
10.84%
Candidates
11 contested · winner RSP- 1N.K.PREMACHANDRANRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,59,78649.8%
- 2S. KRISHNAKUMARIndian National Congress · INC2,81,41638.9%
- 3NINA RAJAN PILLAIIndependent · IND57,9178.0%
- 4KAIPPUZHA RAM MOHANFBL · FBL12,8371.8%
- 5Y ABDUL AZEEZIndependent · IND3,5330.5%
- 6SAHADEVAN PILLAI V.Independent · IND1,6950.2%
- 7JAGADAN K.Independent · IND1,2900.2%
- 8KERALAPURAM JABBARIndependent · IND1,1310.2%
- 9K.KANAKARAJANIndependent · IND1,1040.2%
- 10B.K.RAJAGOPALIndependent · IND1,0910.2%
- 11SANKARAMANGALAM JAYASANKARJanahitha Paksha · JP8940.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–INC swing
- +14.6%
- RSP share
- 46.6% → 49.8%
- INC share
- 50.4% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- 75.1% → 70.7%