Ottapalam #8GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1984

Won

K. R. Narayanan

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

55,570 10.3 pp

votes

over A. K. Balan (CPIM)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors7,05,020

Votes polled5,40,620

Turnout76.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.32 L47.1% of electorate

Female electors3.73 L52.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,123females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	K. R. Narayanan	INC	2,90,177	53.70%
2	A. K. Balan	CPIM	2,34,607	43.40%
3	C. Aru	IND	3,143	0.60%
4	E. T. Subramaniam	IND	2,153	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,540, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 530,080 · NOTA n/a · published 540,620 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1984