Kottayam #13GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Suresh Kurup

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

5,446 0.8 pp

votes

over Ramesh Chennithala (INC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors9,82,587

Votes polled7,19,864

Turnout73.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.89 L49.8% of electorate

Female electors4.93 L50.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,009females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Suresh Kurup	CPIM	3,35,893	46.70%
2	Ramesh Chennithala	INC	3,30,447	45.90%
3	Adv. George Kurian	BJP	42,830	5.90%
4	P.K. Rajan	BSP	3,756	0.50%
5	Saseendranath Thankappan	NPP	1,066	0.10%
6	Jaison Joseph	IND	1,000	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 4,872, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 714,992 · NOTA n/a · published 719,864 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998