Constituency
205. Ponnani
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-PONNANI
MUL 54.1%won by 18.8%CPI 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedMUL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.2% to 18.8%.
- 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
11,46,335
Turnout
60.1%
Valid votes
6,88,923
Margin
1,29,478
18.79%
Candidates
5 contested · winner MUL- 1G.M. BanatwallaMUL · MUL3,72,57254.1%
- 2P.P. SuneerCommunist Party of India · CPI2,43,09435.3%
- 3K. Narayanan MasterBharatiya Janata Party · BJP66,4279.6%
- 4Kallayi MoosaIndependent · IND3,7290.5%
- 5K. Abdu Rahiman HajiRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,1010.5%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- MUL
- Winner now
- MUL
- MUL–CPI swing
- +3.6%
- MUL share
- 50.2% → 54.1%
- CPI share
- 35.0% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 62.0% → 60.1%