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218. Ottapalam

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Kerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004

IN-OTTAPALAM

CPM 49.1%won by 8.7%INC 40.3%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 8.7%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 3.5% to 73.9%.
  • 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
10,92,142
Turnout
73.9%
Valid votes
8,06,835
Margin
70,410
8.73%

Candidates

5 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1S. AJAYA KUMARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,95,92849.1%
  2. 2K A THULASIIndian National Congress · INC3,25,51840.3%
  3. 3P K VELAYUDHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP68,1938.5%
  4. 4K AJAYANIndependent · IND9,3071.2%
  5. 5M VELAYUDHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,8891.0%

Since 1999

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
+7.0%
CPM share
46.3% → 49.1%
INC share
44.6% → 40.3%
Turnout
70.4% → 73.9%
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