Indian National Congress on Ponnani

State 32 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 3 OF 8 contested

INC runner-up 5 times

Strike rate

37.5%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 8 published candidatures

Best vote share50.90%in 1984

Worst vote share33.80%in 2004

Average vote share44.34% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1977

Last contested2004

Votes polled here24.36 Lacross all 8 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Indian National Congress 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, 2009, 2014, 2019, 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

8 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2004	V S Vijaya Raghavan	2,76,986	33.80%	2	Lost · 2nd
1999	M.T. Padma	3,41,769	41.90%	2	Lost · 2nd
1998	V.S. Vijayaraghavan	3,20,941	43.10%	2	Lost · 2nd
1996	V S Vijayaraghavan	3,19,841	43.30%	2	Lost · 2nd
1991	V.S. Vijayaraghavan	3,34,913	47.70%	1	Won
1989	V. S. Vijayaraghavan	3,47,115	46.80%	2	Lost · 2nd
1984	V. S. Vijayaraghavan	2,87,170	50.90%	1	Won
1977	A. Sunnasahib	2,07,604	47.20%	1	Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Communist Party Of India (Marxist)Indian Union Muslim League Indian National Congress (I)Muslim League Kerala State Committee Independent Bharatiya Janta Party Bahujan Samaj Party Jharkhand Party Social Democratic Party Of India Aam Aadmi Party Peoples Democratic Party Rashtriya Janata Dal Communist Party Of India (MARXIST-LENINIST) (LIBERATION)Janata Pary (JP)

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Ponnani

Publisher: Election Commission of India
Retrieved: 2026-09-13
Computed: 2026-09-13 01:00 UTC

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