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218. Chirayinkil

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-CHIRAYINKIL

CPM 45.1%won by 0.5%INC 44.7%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.1% to 0.5%.

  • TurnoutTurnout fell 2.6% to 62.5%.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 3,128 votes (0.46%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • 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
10,96,417
Turnout
62.5%
Valid votes
6,85,378
Margin
3,128
0.46%

Candidates

9 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Varkala RadhakrishnanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,09,30445.1%
  2. 2M.I. ShanavasIndian National Congress · INC3,06,17644.7%
  3. 3Advocate PadmakumarBharatiya Janata Party · BJP63,8899.3%
  4. 4DevadathanIndependent · IND1,4310.2%
  5. 5SathyachandranIndependent · IND1,4150.2%
  6. 6Kilimanoor AmbiliIndependent · IND1,1770.2%
  7. 7RadhakrishnanIndependent · IND9250.1%
  8. 8ThankappanIndependent · IND5550.1%
  9. 9Vijaya KumarIndependent · IND5060.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
−0.6%
CPM share
46.6% → 45.1%
INC share
45.5% → 44.7%
Turnout
65.1% → 62.5%
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