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205. Ponnani

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-PONNANI

MUL 50.2%won by 15.2%CPI 35.0%

What changed here

Derived

MUL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.1% to 15.2%.

  • TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 62.0%.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
11,05,709
Turnout
62.0%
Valid votes
6,85,785
Margin
1,04,244
15.20%

Candidates

5 contested · winner MUL
  1. 1G.M. BanatwallaMUL · MUL3,44,46150.2%
  2. 2Minu MumthasCommunist Party of India · CPI2,40,21735.0%
  3. 3Ahalliya SankarBharatiya Janata Party · BJP65,0089.5%
  4. 4Puthuthottil Ibrahim TirurJammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party · PDP35,0265.1%
  5. 5Cholakkattil KunhimuhammedIndependent · IND1,0730.2%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
MUL
Winner now
MUL
MUL–CPI swing
+4.1%
MUL share
49.6% → 50.2%
CPI share
38.5% → 35.0%
Turnout
65.5% → 62.0%
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