Palghat #7GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

N.N. Krishnadas

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

25,022 3.4 pp

votes

over V.S. Vijayaraghavan (INC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors10,76,444

Votes polled7,45,183

Turnout69.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.25 L48.8% of electorate

Female electors5.51 L51.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,050females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	N.N. Krishnadas	CPIM	3,45,963	46.40%
2	V.S. Vijayaraghavan	INC	3,20,941	43.10%
3	Prof. T.C. Govindan	BJP	61,419	8.20%
4	U.C. Kunjan	IND	3,916	0.50%
5	Adv. K. Prabhakaran	BSP	1,906	0.30%
6	A. Chandran Nellippadam	IND	1,090	0.10%
7	N. Krishnakumar	IND	1,057	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 8,891, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 736,292 · NOTA n/a · published 745,183 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998