Communist Party Of India (Marxist) on Palakkad

State 32 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 7 OF 13 contested

CPIM runner-up 6 times

Strike rate

53.8%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 13 published candidatures

Best vote share51.90%in 1980

Worst vote share33.40%in 2024

Average vote share44.45% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1977

Last contested2024

Votes polled here41.71 Lacross all 13 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.

Every contest

13 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	A Vijayaraghavan	3,45,886	33.40%	2	Lost · 2nd
2019	M B Rajesh	3,87,637	37.70%	2	Lost · 2nd
2014	M B Rajesh	4,12,897	45.40%	1	Won
2009	M.B. Rajesh	3,38,070	42.70%	1	Won
2004	S. Ajaya Kumar	3,95,928	49.20%	1	Won
1999	S. Ajayakumar	3,59,758	45.90%	1	Won
1998	S. Ajayakumar	3,35,376	46.50%	1	Won
1996	S. Ajayakumar	3,24,022	46.60%	1	Won
1991	Lenin Rajendran	3,11,955	45.50%	2	Lost · 2nd
1989	Lenin Rajendran	3,24,496	44.90%	2	Lost · 2nd
1984	A. K. Balan	2,34,607	43.40%	2	Lost · 2nd
1980	A.K. Balan	2,03,256	51.90%	1	Won
1977	C. K. Chakrapani	1,96,691	44.70%	2	Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Indian National Congress (I)Socialist Janta (DEMOCRATIC)Independent Bharatiya Janta Party Bahujan Samaj Party Social Democratic Party Of India Janata Pary (JP)Peoples Democratic Party Nationalist Congress Party Welfare Party Of India Aam Aadmi Party Shiv Sena All India Trinamool Congress

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Palakkad

Publisher: Election Commission of India
Retrieved: 2026-09-12
Computed: 2026-09-12 17:35 UTC

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