State board · Lok Sabha

Kerala Lok Sabha 1996

Results board · 20 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateKerala

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 20

Electors

2.07Cr

On the roll

Votes polled

1.47Cr

71.1% of electors

Median turnout

71.8%

Median of 20 seats

INC short

−4

Below majority · 7 − 11

[01]Seat matrix

20 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 11 of 20INC 7 · 4 short of majority

INC 735.0% Indian National Congress

CPI(M) 525.0% Communist Party of India (Marxist)

ML 210.0% Muslim Leage

CPI 210.0% Communist Party of India

JD 15.0% Janata Dal

RSP 15.0% Revolutionary Socialist Party

IND 15.0% Independents

KC(M) 15.0% Kerala Congress (M)

State level, as published

INC 38.0%7 seats · 35.0%

CPI(M) 21.2%5 seats · 25.0%

CPI 8.2%2 seats · 10.0%

BJP 5.6%0 seats

MUL 5.1%Seats unmatched

Others 21.9%Seat count not derivable

Vote share not published

ML2 seats
JD1 seat
RSP1 seat
IND1 seat
KC(M)1 seat

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

UPA 45.7%10 seats

THIRD FRONT 38.5%9 seats

NDA 5.6%0 seats

OTHERS 10.2%Seats not published

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

INC converted 38.0% of votes into 35.0% of seats, a seat deficit of 3.0 pp.
7 ÷ 20 = 35.0% · 35.0 − 38.0 = −3.0
BJP polled 5.6% of votes, the 4th-highest share, but won 0 seats (0.0%).
0 ÷ 20 = 0.0% · 0.0 − 5.6 = −5.6
Trichur was decided by 1,480 votes, the closest of 20 seats; Muvattupuzha had the widest margin, 1,21,896.
min / max of margin over 20 seats with a recorded margin
1 seat was won by a margin under 1%; CPI won 1 of them.
count(margin % < 1.0) = 1 of 20 · CPI 1
Turnout ran from 64.6% in Trivandrum to 77.9% in Alleppey; the median seat polled 71.8%.
min / median / max over 20 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

20 of 20 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 00.0% of seats

50–60 00.0% of seats

60–70 735.0% of seats

70–80 1365.0% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestTrivandrum64.6%
HighestAlleppey77.9%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

20 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Kerala Lok Sabha 1996, all 20 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	Kasaragod	T. Govindan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	8,12,375	74,730	9.2	72.6
02	Cannanore	Mullappally Ramachandran	Indian National Congress	7,74,769	39,302	5.1	74.1
03	Badagara	O. Bharathan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	8,25,203	79,945	9.7	75.7
04	Calicut	M P Veerendra Kumar	Janata Dal	7,58,736	38,703	5.1	71.6
05	Manjeri	E.Ahammed	Muslim Leage	7,95,721	54,971	6.9	69.0
06	Ponnani	G.M.Banatwalla	Muslim Leage	7,33,423	79,295	10.8	67.2
07	Palghat	N N Krishnadas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	7,37,849	23,423	3.2	69.5
08	Ottapalam	S. Ajayakumar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,95,723	23,064	3.3	67.2
09	TrichurSCCLOSEST	V.V.Raghavan	Communist Party of India	7,08,216	1,480	0.2	71.2
10	Mukundapuram	P. C.Chacko	Indian National Congress	7,49,439	24,757	3.3	74.6
11	Ernakulam	Xavier Arrakkal	Independent	7,29,915	30,385	4.2	68.2
12	MuvattupuzhaWIDEST	P C Thomas	Kerala Congress (M)	7,19,419	1,21,896	16.9	73.8
13	Kottayam	Remesh Chennithala	Indian National Congress	7,01,660	67,048	9.6	72.5
14	Idukki	A.C.Jos	Indian National Congress	7,29,832	30,140	4.1	70.6
15	Alleppey	V M Sudheeran	Indian National Congress	7,58,374	25,949	3.4	77.9
16	MavelikaraSC	P.J.Kurien	Indian National Congress	6,33,593	21,076	3.3	71.9
17	Adoor	Kodikkunnil Suresh	Indian National Congress	6,81,578	65,545	9.6	72.5
18	Quilon	N.K.Premachandran	Revolutionary Socialist Party	7,38,078	78,370	10.6	72.2
19	Chirayinkil	A.Sampath	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,96,024	48,083	6.9	67.2
20	Trivandrum	K.V.Surendranath	Communist Party of India	7,21,087	20,802	2.9	64.6

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 1,21,896 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1996 · Kerala · 20 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database