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Palghat #7GEN
Won
A. Vijayaraghavan
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
1,286 0.2 pp
votes
over V. S. Vijayaraghavan (INC)
The contest
Electors9,57,847
Votes polled7,41,859
Turnout77.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.73 L49.4% of electorate
Female electors4.85 L50.6% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,026females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A. Vijayaraghavan | CPIM | 3,48,401 | 47.00% | |
| 2 | V. S. Vijayaraghavan | INC | 3,47,115 | 46.80% | |
| 3 | T. Chandrasekharan | BJP | 27,220 | 3.70% | |
| 4 | N. Krishnakumar | IND | 2,182 | 0.30% | |
| 5 | Kassim Mohammedkutty | IND | 1,894 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | T. P. Joya | IND | 1,485 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Edakazhiyur Velayudhan | JPJ | 1,423 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Alathi Ishaq | IND | 1,080 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | P. P. Menon | IND | 749 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | S. Abdulkareen | IND | 632 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Kavassery Sankaran | IND | 579 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | P. V. Arumughan | IND | 546 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Nanchan | IND | 535 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | V. L. Dora | IND | 478 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | T. K. Prabhakaran | IND | 459 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,081, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 734,778 · NOTA n/a · published 741,859 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
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- 2026-09-12