Constituency
213. Idukki
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-IDUKKI
INC 46.8%won by 0.9%KEC 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.2% to 0.9%.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 6,350 votes (0.89%) — 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
10,53,290
Turnout
67.8%
Valid votes
7,14,298
Margin
6,350
0.89%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1P.C.ChackoIndian National Congress · INC3,33,99946.8%
- 2K. Francis GeorgeKerala Congress · KEC3,27,64945.9%
- 3Adv. D AsokakumarBharatiya Janata Party · BJP46,1306.5%
- 4Raj Mohan ThampiBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,8240.5%
- 5Devarajan KumaramangalamIndependent · IND1,1290.2%
- 6P.C. ChackoIndependent · IND5830.1%
- 7Shukkur IsmailIndependent · IND3460.0%
- 8George JosephIndependent · IND3330.0%
- 9P.D. ChackoIndependent · IND3050.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–KEC swing
- −3.3%
- INC share
- 48.8% → 46.8%
- KEC share
- 44.6% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- 69.4% → 67.8%