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207. Ottapalam

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-OTTAPALAM

CPM 46.3%won by 1.8%INC 44.6%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.8% to 1.8%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 2.4% to 70.4%.
  • 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
11,03,327
Turnout
70.4%
Valid votes
7,76,652
Margin
13,715
1.77%

Candidates

3 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1S. AjayakumarCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,59,75846.3%
  2. 2Pandalam SudhakaranIndian National Congress · INC3,46,04344.6%
  3. 3P.M. VelayudhanBharatiya Janata Party · BJP70,8519.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
−1.0%
CPM share
46.9% → 46.3%
INC share
44.1% → 44.6%
Turnout
68.0% → 70.4%
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