Constituency
229. Chirayinkil
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-CHIRAYINKIL
CPM 46.8%won by 7.6%INC 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.5% to 7.6%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.1% to 65.6%.
- 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
10,20,604
Turnout
65.6%
Valid votes
6,69,639
Margin
50,745
7.58%
Candidates
11 contested · winner CPM- 1VARKALA RADHAKRISHNANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,13,61546.8%
- 2M I SHANAVASIndian National Congress · INC2,62,87039.3%
- 3ADVOCATE J R PADMAKUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP71,98210.7%
- 4DR P D RAJANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,8211.0%
- 5A ANSARIIndependent · IND4,7560.7%
- 6SANTHINAGAR SOMANIndependent · IND3,2040.5%
- 7M MURALI KUMARIndependent · IND1,6630.2%
- 8B PADMAKUMARIndependent · IND1,4480.2%
- 9M B THANKAPPANIndependent · IND1,4060.2%
- 10SREENIVASA DASIndependent · IND1,1410.2%
- 11P DEVARAJANIndependent · IND7330.1%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +7.1%
- CPM share
- 45.1% → 46.8%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- 62.5% → 65.6%