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203. Calicut

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-CALICUT

INC 45.3%won by 2.4%JD 42.9%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.4%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 2.6% to 72.7%.
  • 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
10,82,831
Turnout
72.7%
Valid votes
7,87,418
Margin
18,657
2.37%

Candidates

6 contested · winner INC
  1. 1Adv. P. SankaranIndian National Congress · INC3,56,39245.3%
  2. 2M.P. Veerendra KumarJanata Dal · JD3,37,73542.9%
  3. 3Adv. P.S. Sreedharan PillaiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP83,90210.7%
  4. 4Ahammed Devar KovilIndian National League · INL8,4251.1%
  5. 5M.P. Shanthi Varma JainIndependent · IND5920.1%
  6. 6Valsaraj C.KIndependent · IND3720.0%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
JD
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–JD swing
+7.6%
INC share
42.7% → 45.3%
JD share
47.9% → 42.9%
Turnout
70.1% → 72.7%
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