Ottapalam #8GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

S. Ajayakumar

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

23,064 3.3 pp

votes

over Vijayalakshmi K K (INC)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors10,35,900

Votes polled6,95,723

Turnout67.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.9 L47.3% of electorate

Female electors5.46 L52.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,115females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	S. Ajayakumar	CPIM	3,24,022	46.60%
2	Vijayalakshmi K K	INC	3,00,958	43.30%
3	K V Kumaran	BJP	49,296	7.10%
4	K Ambujakshan	PDP	8,581	1.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,866, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 682,857 · NOTA n/a · published 695,723 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996