Kottayam #13GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Skaria Thomas

KC Kerala Congress

Margin

5,375 1.4 pp

votes

over K.M. Chandy (INCI)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors6,59,430

Votes polled3,83,531

Turnout58.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.29 L49.9% of electorate

Female electors3.3 L50.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,004females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Skaria Thomas	KC	1,88,676	49.20%
2	K.M. Chandy	INCI	1,83,301	47.80%
3	Thomas Kuriakose	IND	5,823	1.50%
4	Chellappan Appukuttan	IND	2,295	0.60%
5	Alexander Lukose	IND	1,086	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 2,350, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 381,181 · NOTA n/a · published 383,531 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980