Constituency
212. Kottayam
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-KOTTAYAM
CPM 47.0%won by 0.8%INC 46.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 0.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 47.0% of the vote here (+47.0%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 5,446 votes (0.76%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
9,82,587
Turnout
72.8%
Valid votes
7,14,992
Margin
5,446
0.76%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1Suresh KurupCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,35,89347.0%
- 2Ramesh ChennithalaIndian National Congress · INC3,30,44746.2%
- 3Adv. George KurianBharatiya Janata Party · BJP42,8306.0%
- 4P.K. RajanBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,7560.5%
- 5Saseendranath ThankappanNational People's Party · NPP1,0660.1%
- 6Jaison JosephIndependent · IND1,0000.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +51.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 47.0%
- INC share
- 50.3% → 46.2%
- Turnout
- 70.8% → 72.8%