Ottapalam #8GEN

KERALA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

S. Ajayakumar

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

19,800 2.7 pp

votes

over Prof: K.K. Vijayalakshmi (INC)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors10,52,499

Votes polled7,21,960

Turnout68.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.98 L47.3% of electorate

Female electors5.54 L52.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,113females 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	3,35,376	46.50%
2	Prof: K.K. Vijayalakshmi	INC	3,15,576	43.70%
3	P.M. Velayudhan	BJP	63,185	8.80%
4	K. Sankaran Kavassery	IND	1,336	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,487, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 715,473 · NOTA n/a · published 721,960 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998