Chirayinkil #19GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

A.Sampath

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

48,083 6.9 pp

votes

over Thalekkunnil Basheer (INC)

The contest

17 candidate rows

Electors10,35,445

Votes polled6,96,024

Turnout67.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.86 L47.0% of electorate

Female electors5.49 L53.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,129females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

17 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	A.Sampath	CPIM	3,30,079	47.40%
2	Thalekkunnil Basheer	INC	2,81,996	40.50%
3	R.Radhakrishnan Unnithan	BJP	30,348	4.40%
4	Pulipara Biju	PDP	11,963	1.70%
5	Suseela Rajan	IND	7,807	1.10%
6	Devadethan	IND	3,298	0.50%
7	Sebastian	IND	3,290	0.50%
8	Jothishkumar	SS	2,342	0.30%
9	Sunny Joseph	IND	1,670	0.20%
10	Poovachal Usha	JP	1,405	0.20%
11	Kallayam Chandra Mohan	IND	1,235	0.20%
12	K.V.Anandan	IND	1,161	0.20%
13	Raveendran Nair	IND	1,155	0.20%
14	C.B.Ramakrishnan Alias M.R.Khan	IND	745	0.10%
15	S. Velayudhan Nair	IND	624	0.10%
16	Abdul Azeez	IND	533	0.10%
17	Balakrishnan	IND	530	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 15,843, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 680,181 · NOTA n/a · published 696,024 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996