Ottapalam #8GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

A.K. Balan

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

23,408 6.0 pp

votes

over V. Eacharan (INCI)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors6,66,300

Votes polled3,91,617

Turnout58.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.13 L47.0% of electorate

Female electors3.53 L53.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,128females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	A.K. Balan	CPIM	2,03,256	51.90%
2	V. Eacharan	INCI	1,79,848	45.90%
3	K. Sankaran	IND	3,464	0.90%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 5,049, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 386,568 · NOTA n/a · published 391,617 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980