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Kottayam #13GEN
Won
Ramesh Chennithala
INC Indian National CongressMargin
53,533 7.1 pp
votes
over Suresh Kurup (CPIM)
The contest
Electors8,90,166
Votes polled7,52,839
Turnout84.6%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.45 L49.9% of electorate
Female electors4.46 L50.1% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,002females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ramesh Chennithala | INC | 3,84,809 | 51.10% | |
| 2 | Suresh Kurup | CPIM | 3,31,276 | 44.00% | |
| 3 | Ettumanoor Radhakrishnan | BJP | 18,449 | 2.50% | |
| 4 | Paul Chirakkarodu | BSP | 8,089 | 1.10% | |
| 5 | K. C. Abraham | JPJ | 2,866 | 0.40% | |
| 6 | Joseph Cherian | DKP | 1,329 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Vaikom Karthikeyan Nair | IND | 743 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Alexander Scaria | IND | 679 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | P. O. Peter | IND | 632 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Rahim | IND | 514 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 3,453, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 749,386 · NOTA n/a · published 752,839 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
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- 2026-09-12