Communist Party Of India (Marxist) on Chalakudy

State 32 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 5 contested

CPIM runner-up 5 times

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 5 published candidatures

Best vote share47.20%in 1977

Worst vote share34.50%in 2019

Average vote share40.04% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1977

Last contested2024

Votes polled here15.35 Lacross all 5 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Communist Party Of India (Marxist) vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1980, 1984, 1989, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2014 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

5 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Prof C Raveendranath	3,30,417	34.70%	2	Lost · 2nd
2019	Innocent	3,41,170	34.50%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	Adv. U.P Joseph	3,27,356	41.20%	2	Lost · 2nd
1991	V. Viswanatha Menon	3,15,831	42.60%	2	Lost · 2nd
1977	K. N. Raveendranath	2,20,611	47.20%	2	Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Independent Indian National Congress Indian National Congress (I)Indian Congress (SOCIALIST)Indian National Congress (U)Bharatiya Janta Party Bharath Dharma Jana Sena Social Democratic Party Of India Aam Aadmi Party Twenty 20 Party Bahujan Samaj Party Janata Pary (JP)Peoples Democratic Party Welfare Party Of India Shiv Sena Jharkhand Party Rashtriya Janata Dal Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Janata Dal (United)Lok Dal Lok Jan Shakti Party Marxist Communist Party Of India (United)Doordarshi Party Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star All India Trinamool Congress