Ottapalam #8GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1989

Won

K. R. Narayanan

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

26,187 3.6 pp

votes

over Lenin Rajendran (CPIM)

The contest

8 candidate rows

Electors9,46,025

Votes polled7,22,920

Turnout76.4%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.57 L48.3% of electorate

Female electors4.89 L51.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,068females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

8 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	K. R. Narayanan	INC	3,50,683	48.50%
2	Lenin Rajendran	CPIM	3,24,496	44.90%
3	Lakshmanan	BJP	32,892	4.50%
4	M. Narayanan	JPJ	2,752	0.40%
5	Premakumaran K. V. Raman	IND	2,544	0.40%
6	Maani	IND	1,121	0.20%
7	C. P. Appunni	BSP	923	0.10%
8	Asokan Chungath	IND	666	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,843, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 716,077 · NOTA n/a · published 722,920 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989