Elections Archive

GEN · Kerala

Kottayam

Ramesh Chennithala (INC) won by 53,533 votes (7.1%).

Electors
8,90,166
Votes polled
7,52,839
Valid votes
Turnout
84.6%
NOTA
0

Margin vs 1989 national median: 7.1% (median 12.7%). Back to Kerala · 1989 national · Target seats

Seat health

Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.

Comfortable (10–20%)Flipped vs 2019
Margin · 2024
10.6%(-1.2%)
Turnout
66.6%(-11.3%)
NOTA
1.4%
Top-2 squeeze
77.9%

Winning margin over time · Kottayam

1957196219671971197719801984198919911996199819992004200920142019202422%

Candidates

Candidates · Kottayam 1989
RankCandidatePartyVotesVote share
1Ramesh ChennithalaWinnerINC3,84,80951.3%
2Suresh KurupCPM3,31,27644.2%
3Ettumanoor RadhakrishnanBJP18,4492.5%
4Paul ChirakkaroduBSP8,0891.1%
5K. C. AbrahamJNP (JP)2,8660.4%
6Joseph CherianDKP1,3290.2%
7Vaikom Karthikeyan NairIND7430.1%
8Alexander ScariaIND6790.1%
9P. O. PeterIND6320.1%
10RahimIND5140.1%

Showing 10 of 10 rows