Idukki #14GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1989

Won

Palai K. M. Mathew

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

91,479 12.2 pp

votes

over M. C. Josephine (CPIM)

The contest

15 candidate rows

Electors9,72,940

Votes polled7,46,958

Turnout76.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.97 L51.1% of electorate

Female electors4.75 L48.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 956females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

15 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Palai K. M. Mathew	INC	3,98,516	53.40%
2	M. C. Josephine	CPIM	3,07,037	41.10%
3	M. N. Jayachandran	BJP	25,354	3.40%
4	T. M. Joseph	BSP	2,862	0.40%
5	Jacob Thomas	JPJ	1,756	0.20%
6	Joseph Varghese	DKP	1,560	0.20%
7	Nadakuzhiyil Janardhanan Nair	IND	1,473	0.20%
8	Ramaswamy Govindadan	IND	1,288	0.20%
9	Gopalan Muthuswamy	IND	1,162	0.20%
10	Samuel Chandy	IND	680	0.10%
11	Shahul Hameed	IND	416	0.10%
12	Idicula	IND	338	0.00%
13	Balan Pillai Kizhakkanattu	IND	320	0.00%
14	Joseph Xavier	IND	219	0.00%
15	V. Pandia Rajan	IND	210	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 3,767, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 743,191 · NOTA n/a · published 746,958 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989