Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) on Kottayam

State 32 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 1 OF 4 contested

CPIM runner-up 3 times

Strike rate

25%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 4 published candidatures

Best vote share49.00%in 1980

Worst vote share34.60%in 2019

Average vote share41.48% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1980

Last contested2019

Votes polled here11.4 Lacross all 4 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: 1977, 1984, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2014, 2024 — 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

4 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2019	V.N. Vasavan	3,14,787	34.60%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	Adv. Suresh Kurup	3,33,392	41.20%	2	Lost · 2nd
1989	M. C. Josephine	3,07,037	41.10%	2	Lost · 2nd
1980	M.M. Lawrence	1,84,919	49.00%	1	Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Kerala Congress Kerala Congress(M)Independent Communist Party Of India Janata Dal (Secular)Kerala Congress (M)Kerala Congress (PILLAI GROUP)Bharatiya Janta Party Bharath Dharma Jana Sena Janata Dal (United)Kerala Congress (Anti-merger Group)Bahujan Samaj Party Aam Aadmi Party Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Samajwadi Jan Parishad Janata Pary (JP)Deseeya Karshaka Party Social Democratic Party Of India Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star