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Kottayam #13GEN
Won
Suresh Kurup
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
10,599 1.4 pp
votes
over P.C. Chacko (INC)
The contest
Electors10,18,385
Votes polled7,33,725
Turnout72.1%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.05 L49.6% of electorate
Female electors5.13 L50.4% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,015females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suresh Kurup | CPIM | 3,44,296 | 46.90% | |
| 2 | P.C. Chacko | INC | 3,33,697 | 45.50% | |
| 3 | Adv. K. R. Surendran | BJP | 41,531 | 5.70% | |
| 4 | K.K.Krishnankutty | BSP | 4,411 | 0.60% | |
| 5 | Baby Sasidharan | IND | 2,006 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | Prof. P.J. James | IND | 1,677 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Mannar Radhakrishnan | IND | 530 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Shaji | IND | 177 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 5,400, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 728,325 · NOTA n/a · published 733,725 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1999
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- 2026-09-12