Constituency
228. Quilon
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-QUILON
CPM 50.4%won by 15.7%INC 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.6% to 15.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 93.1% — the field split more ways.
- 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
10,31,593
Turnout
68.4%
Valid votes
7,05,482
Margin
1,11,071
15.74%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1P. RAJENDRANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,55,27950.4%
- 2SOORANAD RAJASEKHARANIndian National Congress · INC2,44,20834.6%
- 3ADV KIZHAKKANELA SUDHAKARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP62,1838.8%
- 4KOLLOORVILA NASIMUDEENIndependent · IND26,4233.7%
- 5ADV S PRAHALADANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,2320.9%
- 6K P VISWAVALSALANIndependent · IND4,9190.7%
- 7SHYLA K JOHNIndependent · IND3,3780.5%
- 8SIVAPRASAD RAGHAVANIndependent · IND1,6030.2%
- 9K R MEENAIndependent · IND1,2570.2%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +13.1%
- CPM share
- 47.8% → 50.4%
- INC share
- 45.2% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- 67.6% → 68.4%