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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-QUILON

RSP 52.1%won by 9.4%INC 42.7%

What changed here

Derived

Rashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.8% to 9.4%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.8% of the vote between them, up from 88.7% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
10,61,740
Turnout
71.6%
Valid votes
7,60,233
Margin
71,762
9.44%

Candidates

7 contested · winner RSP
  1. 1N.K. PremachandranRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,96,14552.1%
  2. 2K.C. RajanIndian National Congress · INC3,24,38342.7%
  3. 3Dr. Raichel MatthaiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP36,9164.9%
  4. 4B.K. RajagopalIndependent · IND8600.1%
  5. 5K. KanakarajanIndependent · IND7830.1%
  6. 6V. ChandrabhanuIndependent · IND6870.1%
  7. 7Latheef KallumpuramIndependent · IND4590.1%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
RSP
Winner now
RSP
RSP–INC swing
−1.4%
RSP share
49.8% → 52.1%
INC share
38.9% → 42.7%
Turnout
70.7% → 71.6%
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