Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Trivandrum #20GEN
Won
A. Charles
INC Indian National CongressMargin
50,913 6.7 pp
votes
over O. N. V. Kurup (IND)
The contest
Electors10,24,210
Votes polled7,57,167
Turnout73.9%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.15 L50.3% of electorate
Female electors5.09 L49.7% of electorate
Sex ratio
989females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A. Charles | INC | 3,67,825 | 48.60% | |
| 2 | O. N. V. Kurup | IND | 3,16,912 | 41.90% | |
| 3 | P. Asok Kumar | BJP | 56,046 | 7.40% | |
| 4 | P. Parameswaran Nair | IND | 2,705 | 0.40% | |
| 5 | Nanthancode Sukumaran | IND | 2,048 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | Alex | IND | 935 | 0.10% | |
| 7 | M. P. Sahib | IND | 835 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Subhashithan Nadar | JPJ | 713 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Ramesh Kumar | IND | 638 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Thaliyal Vanajan | IND | 412 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Purushothaman | IND | 328 | 0.00% | |
| 12 | K. Achuthan | IND | 295 | 0.00% | |
| 13 | Madhusoodhanan | IND | 265 | 0.00% | |
| 14 | M. Balaji | IND | 234 | 0.00% | |
| 15 | Sainulabuddin | IND | 177 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,799, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 750,368 · NOTA n/a · published 757,167 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
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- 2026-09-13