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212. Kottayam

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-KOTTAYAM

CPM 47.3%won by 1.5%INC 45.8%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.8% to 1.5%.

  • 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
10,18,385
Turnout
71.5%
Valid votes
7,28,325
Margin
10,599
1.46%

Candidates

8 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Suresh KurupCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,44,29647.3%
  2. 2P.C. ChackoIndian National Congress · INC3,33,69745.8%
  3. 3Adv. K. R. SurendranBharatiya Janata Party · BJP41,5315.7%
  4. 4K.K.KrishnankuttyBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,4110.6%
  5. 5Baby SasidharanIndependent · IND2,0060.3%
  6. 6Prof. P.J. JamesIndependent · IND1,6770.2%
  7. 7Mannar RadhakrishnanIndependent · IND5300.1%
  8. 8ShajiIndependent · IND1770.0%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
+0.7%
CPM share
47.0% → 47.3%
INC share
46.2% → 45.8%
Turnout
72.8% → 71.5%
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