Ernakulam #11GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Xavier Arrakkal

IND Independent

Margin

30,385 4.2 pp

votes

over K.V.Thomas (INC)

The contest

16 candidate rows

Electors10,70,063

Votes polled7,29,915

Turnout68.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.28 L49.3% of electorate

Female electors5.42 L50.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,028females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

16 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Xavier Arrakkal	IND	3,35,479	46.00%
2	K.V.Thomas	INC	3,05,094	41.80%
3	O.M.Mathew	BJP	46,559	6.40%
4	P.T. Inasi	IND	9,119	1.20%
5	Kaloor Joseph	IND	4,608	0.60%
6	V.C.Rajappan	IND	2,570	0.40%
7	R Prakash	SS	2,225	0.30%
8	Anjiparambil Gilbert	IND	1,321	0.20%
9	Raghavan (POOYAPILLY RAGHAVAN)	IND	1,296	0.20%
10	P A Viswambharan	IND	1,285	0.20%
11	Stanley Joseph Stanley	IND	1,263	0.20%
12	Baby John	IND	1,046	0.10%
13	M S Jayachandran	IND	865	0.10%
14	Abdul Rasheed	IND	850	0.10%
15	R. Thulasidharan Pillai	IND	849	0.10%
16	Unnikrishnan Velayudhan Nair	IND	713	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,773, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 715,142 · NOTA n/a · published 729,915 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996