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206. Palghat

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-PALGHAT

CPM 47.0%won by 3.4%INC 43.6%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 3.3% 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
10,76,444
Turnout
68.4%
Valid votes
7,36,292
Margin
25,022
3.40%

Candidates

7 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1N.N. KrishnadasCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,45,96347.0%
  2. 2V.S. VijayaraghavanIndian National Congress · INC3,20,94143.6%
  3. 3Prof. T.C. GovindanBharatiya Janata Party · BJP61,4198.3%
  4. 4U.C. KunjanIndependent · IND3,9160.5%
  5. 5Adv. K. PrabhakaranBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9060.3%
  6. 6A. Chandran NellippadamIndependent · IND1,0900.1%
  7. 7N. KrishnakumarIndependent · IND1,0570.1%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
+0.1%
CPM share
47.8% → 47.0%
INC share
44.5% → 43.6%
Turnout
67.7% → 68.4%
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