Elections Archive

GEN · Kerala

Kottayam

Remesh Chennithala (INC) won by 67,048 votes (9.8%).

Electors
9,68,334
Votes polled
7,01,660
Valid votes
Turnout
72.5%
NOTA
0

Margin vs 1996 national median: 9.8% (median 9.4%). Back to Kerala · 1996 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 1996
RankCandidatePartyVotesVote share
1Remesh ChennithalaWinnerINC3,44,58750.3%
2JayalakshmiJD2,77,53940.5%
3A K AcharyIND29,3194.3%
4Paul ChirakarodeBSP10,0831.5%
5K.n.sreedharanIND5,6520.8%
6Muhammed SherifIND3,3000.5%
7K RamachandranJP2,7380.4%
8M A Abdul RahimIND2,1170.3%
9Rev. M J PanditIND2,1040.3%
10Gopalakrishnan Nair AnthanattuIND1,4850.2%
11James Joseph KannambadamIND1,0980.2%
12Sasi KuzhikkadanSHS1,0420.2%
13Babu AugustineIND1,0220.1%
14Christopher GeorgeIND7920.1%
15Abraham ChackoIND6420.1%
16E T KurienIND5590.1%
17Sahadevan Pillai V.IND4530.1%
18Mons KallaraIND3850.1%
19Shaji SuryaIND3590.1%
20Chacko GeorgeIND3090.0%

Showing 20 of 20 rows