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218. Chirayinkil

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-CHIRAYINKIL

CPM 46.6%won by 1.1%INC 45.5%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.1% to 1.1%.

  • 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
10,59,243
Turnout
65.1%
Valid votes
6,89,744
Margin
7,542
1.09%

Candidates

9 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Varkala RadhakrishnanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,21,47946.6%
  2. 2M.M. HassanIndian National Congress · INC3,13,93745.5%
  3. 3T.M. ViswambharanBharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,2496.9%
  4. 4Nagaroor Vijayan, B.A., BEd.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,4130.3%
  5. 5Surendran KarippuzhaIndependent · IND1,3200.2%
  6. 6DevadathanIndependent · IND1,0620.2%
  7. 7Pandalam RajendranIndependent · IND1,0340.1%
  8. 8Radhakrishnan A.Independent · IND6820.1%
  9. 9Sailamony RajasekharanIndependent · IND5680.1%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
−6.0%
CPM share
48.5% → 46.6%
INC share
41.5% → 45.5%
Turnout
65.7% → 65.1%
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