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202. Badagara

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-BADAGARA

CPM 48.5%won by 7.0%INC 41.5%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.8% to 7.0%.

  • 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
11,25,076
Turnout
74.8%
Valid votes
8,40,958
Margin
59,161
7.03%

Candidates

6 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1A.K. PremajamCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,07,87648.5%
  2. 2P.M. Suresh BabuIndian National Congress · INC3,48,71541.5%
  3. 3Chettoor Balakrishnan MasterBharatiya Janata Party · BJP69,5648.3%
  4. 4P.K. RadhakrishnanIndian National League · INL11,9651.4%
  5. 5Kalanthan Haji T.KIndependent · IND1,5790.2%
  6. 6Edachery SadanandanIndependent · IND1,2590.1%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
−2.8%
CPM share
51.2% → 48.5%
INC share
41.3% → 41.5%
Turnout
74.6% → 74.8%
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