Chirayinkil #19GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Varkala Radhakrishnan

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

7,542 1.1 pp

votes

over M.M. Hassan (INC)

The contest

9 candidate rows

Electors10,59,243

Votes polled6,95,722

Turnout65.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.11 L48.3% of electorate

Female electors5.48 L51.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,072females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

9 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Varkala Radhakrishnan	CPIM	3,21,479	46.20%
2	M.M. Hassan	INC	3,13,937	45.10%
3	T.M. Viswambharan	BJP	47,249	6.80%
4	Nagaroor Vijayan, B.A., Bed.	BSP	2,413	0.30%
5	Surendran Karippuzha	IND	1,320	0.20%
6	Devadathan	IND	1,062	0.20%
7	Pandalam Rajendran	IND	1,034	0.10%
8	Radhakrishnan A.	IND	682	0.10%
9	Sailamony Rajasekharan	IND	568	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 5,978, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 689,744 · NOTA n/a · published 695,722 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998