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Chirayinkil #19GEN
Won
Varkala Radhakrishnan
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
50,745 7.6 pp
votes
over M I Shanavas (INC)
The contest
Electors10,20,604
Votes polled6,68,280
Turnout65.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.72 L46.2% of electorate
Female electors5.49 L53.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,164females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Varkala Radhakrishnan | CPIM | 3,13,615 | 46.90% | |
| 2 | M I Shanavas | INC | 2,62,870 | 39.30% | |
| 3 | Advocate J R Padmakumar | BJP | 71,982 | 10.80% | |
| 4 | Dr P D Rajan | BSP | 6,821 | 1.00% | |
| 5 | A Ansari | IND | 4,756 | 0.70% | |
| 6 | Santhinagar Soman | IND | 3,204 | 0.50% | |
| 7 | M Murali Kumar | IND | 1,663 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | B Padmakumar | IND | 1,448 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | M B Thankappan | IND | 1,406 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Sreenivasa Das | IND | 1,141 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | P Devarajan | IND | 733 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is -1,359, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 669,639 · NOTA n/a · published 668,280 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004
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- 2026-09-13