Communist Party Of India on Alathur

State 32 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 4 OF 8 contested

CPI runner-up 4 times

Strike rate

50%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 8 published candidatures

Best vote share50.20%in 1977

Worst vote share41.70%in 1984

Average vote share45.58% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1977

Last contested2004

Votes polled here23.87 Lacross all 8 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Communist Party Of India 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	C. K. Chandrappan	3,20,960	46.80%	1	Won
1999	V.V. Raghavan	3,32,161	45.10%	2	Lost · 2nd
1998	V.V. Raghavan	3,40,216	46.60%	1	Won
1996	V.V.Raghavan	3,08,482	43.60%	1	Won
1991	K.P. Rajendran	3,13,665	44.40%	2	Lost · 2nd
1989	Meenakshy Thampan	3,32,036	46.20%	2	Lost · 2nd
1984	V. V. Raghavan	2,17,393	41.70%	2	Lost · 2nd
1977	K. A. Rajan	2,21,815	50.20%	1	Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Indian National Congress (I)Independent Bharatiya Janta Party Janata Dal (United)Bharath Dharma Jana Sena Janta Party Bahujan Samaj Party Jharkhand Party Social Democratic Party Of India Communist Party Of India (MARXIST-LENINIST) (LIBERATION)Samata Party

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Alathur

Publisher: Election Commission of India
Retrieved: 2026-09-12
Computed: 2026-09-12 23:00 UTC

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