Ponnani #6GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

G.M. Banatwalla

MLKSC Muslim League Kerala State Committee

Margin

1,04,244 15.1 pp

votes

over Minu Mumthas (CPI)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors11,05,709

Votes polled6,92,506

Turnout62.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.29 L47.9% of electorate

Female electors5.76 L52.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,088females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	G.M. Banatwalla	MLKSC	3,44,461	49.70%
2	Minu Mumthas	CPI	2,40,217	34.70%
3	Ahalliya Sankar	BJP	65,008	9.40%
4	Puthuthottil Ibrahim Tirur	PDP	35,026	5.10%
5	Cholakkattil Kunhimuhammed	IND	1,073	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,721, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 685,785 · NOTA n/a · published 692,506 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998