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206. Palghat

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-PALGHAT

CPM 46.2%won by 3.8%INC 42.4%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 3.4% to 3.8%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 2.8% to 71.2%.
  • 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
11,32,416
Turnout
71.2%
Valid votes
8,06,543
Margin
30,767
3.81%

Candidates

6 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1N.N.KrishnadasCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,72,53646.2%
  2. 2M.T. PadmaIndian National Congress · INC3,41,76942.4%
  3. 3C. Uday BhaskarBharatiya Janata Party · BJP87,94810.9%
  4. 4C. KrishnanBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6680.3%
  5. 5T.K. RajanIndependent · IND8180.1%
  6. 6N. KrishnakumarRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD8040.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
+0.4%
CPM share
47.0% → 46.2%
INC share
43.6% → 42.4%
Turnout
68.4% → 71.2%
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