Kottayam #13GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Remesh Chennithala

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

67,048 9.6 pp

votes

over Jayalakshmi (JD)

The contest

20 candidate rows

Electors9,68,334

Votes polled7,01,660

Turnout72.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.82 L49.8% of electorate

Female electors4.86 L50.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,009females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

20 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Remesh Chennithala	INC	3,44,587	49.10%
2	Jayalakshmi	JD	2,77,539	39.60%
3	A K Achary	IND	29,319	4.20%
4	Paul Chirakarode	BSP	10,083	1.40%
5	K.N.Sreedharan	IND	5,652	0.80%
6	Muhammed Sherif	IND	3,300	0.50%
7	K Ramachandran	JP	2,738	0.40%
8	M A Abdul Rahim	IND	2,117	0.30%
9	Rev. M J Pandit	IND	2,104	0.30%
10	Gopalakrishnan Nair Anthanattu	IND	1,485	0.20%
11	James Joseph Kannambadam	IND	1,098	0.20%
12	Sasi Kuzhikkadan	SS	1,042	0.10%
13	Babu Augustine	IND	1,022	0.10%
14	Christopher George	IND	792	0.10%
15	Abraham Chacko	IND	642	0.10%
16	E T Kurien	IND	559	0.10%
17	Sahadevan Pillai V.	IND	453	0.10%
18	Mons Kallara	IND	385	0.10%
19	Shaji Surya	IND	359	0.10%
20	Chacko George	IND	309	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 16,075, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 685,585 · NOTA n/a · published 701,660 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996