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219. Trivandrum

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-TRIVANDRUM

INC 44.4%won by 2.0%CPI 42.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.0%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 2.2% to 65.2%.
  • 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
11,66,449
Turnout
65.2%
Valid votes
7,60,823
Margin
15,398
2.02%

Candidates

9 contested · winner INC
  1. 1K. KarunakaranIndian National Congress · INC3,37,42944.4%
  2. 2K.V. Surendra NathCommunist Party of India · CPI3,22,03142.3%
  3. 3Kerala Varma RajaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP94,30312.4%
  4. 4Robinson DavidBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,8710.4%
  5. 5S.R. BijuIndependent · IND1,8760.2%
  6. 6Robinson AlbertIndependent · IND8760.1%
  7. 7Prof. A. Yeshu RatnamIndependent · IND6040.1%
  8. 8P. Peeru MohammedIndependent · IND4290.1%
  9. 9Gopakumar Sankara PillaiIndependent · IND4040.1%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPI swing
+5.0%
INC share
41.4% → 44.4%
CPI share
44.4% → 42.3%
Turnout
63.1% → 65.2%
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