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207. Ottapalam

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-OTTAPALAM

CPM 46.9%won by 2.8%INC 44.1%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.4% to 2.8%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 2.1% to 68.0%.
  • 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
10,52,499
Turnout
68.0%
Valid votes
7,15,473
Margin
19,800
2.77%

Candidates

4 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1S. AjayakumarCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,35,37646.9%
  2. 2Prof: K.K. VijayalakshmiIndian National Congress · INC3,15,57644.1%
  3. 3P.M. VelayudhanBharatiya Janata Party · BJP63,1858.8%
  4. 4K. Sankaran KavasseryIndependent · IND1,3360.2%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
−0.6%
CPM share
47.5% → 46.9%
INC share
44.1% → 44.1%
Turnout
65.9% → 68.0%
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