Constituency
207. Kottayam
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 2019
IN-KOTTAYAM
KECM 46.3%won by 11.7%CPM 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedKerala Congress (M) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.5% to 11.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 34.6% — it polled just 0.1% in 2014.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.8% between them, down from 87.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.8% to 75.4%.
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Electorate
12,06,698
Turnout
75.4%
Valid votes
9,10,339
Margin
1,06,259
11.67%
Candidates
8 contested · winner KECM- 1Thomas ChazhikadanKerala Congress (M) · KECM4,21,04646.3%
- 2V.N. VasavanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,14,78734.6%
- 3Adv. P.C ThomasKerala Congress · KEC1,55,13517.0%
- 4Jijo JosephBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,4030.8%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA7,1910.8%
- 6E.V. PrakashSUCIC · SUCIC2,2160.2%
- 7Thomas J. NidhiryIndependent · IND1,4960.2%
- 8Ignatious IllimoottilIndependent · IND1,0650.1%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- KECM
- Winner now
- KECM
- KECM–CPM swing
- −39.2%
- KECM share
- 51.0% → 46.3%
- CPM share
- 0.1% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- 71.6% → 75.4%