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208. Trichur

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-TRICHUR

CPI 47.0%won by 2.5%INC 44.5%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.2% to 2.5%.

  • 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
10,24,211
Turnout
70.6%
Valid votes
7,23,190
Margin
18,409
2.55%

Candidates

6 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1V.V. RaghavanCommunist Party of India · CPI3,40,21647.0%
  2. 2K. MuraleedharanIndian National Congress · INC3,21,80744.5%
  3. 3P.M. GopinadhanBharatiya Janata Party · BJP58,3868.1%
  4. 4Prof. Tholoor SasidharanJanahitha Paksha · JP1,1640.2%
  5. 5C.V. AnilkumarIndependent · IND1,0590.1%
  6. 6K.S. JoshySamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP5580.1%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPI–INC swing
+2.3%
CPI share
44.7% → 47.0%
INC share
44.5% → 44.5%
Turnout
69.4% → 70.6%
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