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Palghat #7GEN
Won
N N Krishnadas
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
23,423 3.2 pp
votes
over V S Vijayaraghavan (INC)
The contest
Electors10,62,083
Votes polled7,37,849
Turnout69.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.22 L49.2% of electorate
Female electors5.4 L50.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
1,034females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N N Krishnadas | CPIM | 3,43,264 | 46.50% | |
| 2 | V S Vijayaraghavan | INC | 3,19,841 | 43.30% | |
| 3 | M V Sukumaran | BJP | 37,221 | 5.00% | |
| 4 | P. Sethumadhavan | JP | 3,289 | 0.40% | |
| 5 | N. Krishna Kumar | IND | 3,274 | 0.40% | |
| 6 | Hamza Chemmanam | PDP | 2,460 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | K. Madhavanunni | IND | 1,350 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Sivaramakrishnan Krishnan | IND | 1,341 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | Pandiyath Chandran | IND | 1,233 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Mundur Kumaran | IND | 1,059 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Abdul Basheer | IND | 863 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | K T Raghavan | IND | 822 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Manikken M. | IND | 689 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Aravindakshan N. | IND | 554 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | P P Menon | IND | 521 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | Joy Peter T | IND | 503 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | Ramesh Verma K P | IND | 260 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 19,305, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 718,544 · NOTA n/a · published 737,849 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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- 2026-09-12