Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Trivandrum #20GEN
Won
K. Karunakaran
INC Indian National CongressMargin
15,398 2.0 pp
votes
over K.V. Surendra Nath (CPI)
The contest
Electors11,66,449
Votes polled7,66,800
Turnout65.7%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.76 L49.4% of electorate
Female electors5.91 L50.6% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,025females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K. Karunakaran | INC | 3,37,429 | 44.00% | |
| 2 | K.V. Surendra Nath | CPI | 3,22,031 | 42.00% | |
| 3 | Kerala Varma Raja | BJP | 94,303 | 12.30% | |
| 4 | Robinson David | BSP | 2,871 | 0.40% | |
| 5 | S.R. Biju | IND | 1,876 | 0.20% | |
| 6 | Robinson Albert | IND | 876 | 0.10% | |
| 7 | Prof. A. Yeshu Ratnam | IND | 604 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | P. Peeru Mohammed | IND | 429 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Gopakumar Sankara Pillai | IND | 404 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 5,977, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 760,823 · NOTA n/a · published 766,800 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
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- 2026-09-13