1996 Indian general election in Kerala

For State Assembly election, see 1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election.

1996 Indian general election

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20 seats
First party Second party   Leader V. S. Achuthanandan A. K. Antony Party CPI(M) INC Alliance LDF UDF Leader's seat - - Last election 4 16 Seats won 10 10 Seat change 6 6 Percentage 44.87% 45.75%
Prime Minister before election P. V. Narasimha Rao INC Prime Minister after election Narendra Modi BJP

The 1996 Indian general election were held to elect 20 members to the eleventh Lok Sabha from Kerala. ^[1] Both Indian National Congress (INC)-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and Left Democratic Front (LDF), led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) won 10 seats each. ^[2] Turnout for the election was at 70.66% ^[3]

Alliances and parties

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UDF is a Kerala legislative alliance formed by INC veteran K. Karunakaran. LDF comprises primarily of CPI(M) and the CPI, forming the Left Front in the national level. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) contested in 18 seats.

United Democratic Front

No.	Party	Election Symbol	Seats Contested
1.	Indian National Congress		17
2.	Indian Union Muslim League		2
3.	Kerala Congress (M)		1

Left Democratic Front

No.	Party	Election Symbol	Seats Contested
1.	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Key	9
2.	Communist Party of India	Star	4
3.	Independents		3
4.	Janata Dal		2
5.	Revolutionary Socialist Party		1
6.	Kerala Congress		1

Bharatiya Janata Party

No.	Party	Election Symbol	Seats Contested
1.	Bharatiya Janata Party		18

List of elected MPs

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No.	Constituency	Name of Elected M.P.	Party Affiliation
1	Kasaragod	T. Govindan	CPI(M)
2	Kannur	Mullappally Ramachandran	INC
3	Vatakara	O. Bharathan	CPI(M)
4	Kozhikode	M. P. Veerendra Kumar	JD
5	Manjeri	E. Ahamed	IUML
6	Ponnani	G. M. Banatwala	IUML
7	Palakkad	N. N. Krishnadas	CPI(M)
8	Ottapalam	S. Ajaya Kumar	CPI(M)
9	Thrissur	V. V. Raghavan	CPI
10	Mukundapuram	P. C. Chacko	INC
11	Ernakulam	Xavier Arackal	IND
12	Muvattupuzha	P. C. Thomas	KC(M)
13	Kottayam	Ramesh Chennithala	INC
14	Idukki	A. C. Jose	INC
15	Alappuzha	V. M. Sudheeran	INC
16	Mavelikkara	P. J. Kurien	INC
17	Adoor	Kodikunnil Suresh	INC
18	Kollam	N. K. Premachandran	RSP
19	Chirayankil	A. Sampath	CPI(M)
20	Thiruvananthapuram	K. V. Surendranath	CPI

Results

Performance of political parties

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Vote Share by alliance

1. UDF (45.75%)
2. LDF (44.87%)
3. BJP (5.61%)
4. Other (3.77%)

No.	Party	Political Front	Seats	Votes	%Votes	±pp
1	Indian National Congress	UDF	7	54,67,132	38.01%	0.76
2	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	LDF	5	30,44,369	21.16%	0.45
3	Communist Party of India	LDF	2	11,82,944	8.22%	0.10
4	Bharatiya Janata Party	none	0	8,07,607	5.61%	1.00
5	Indian Union Muslim League	UDF	2	7,45,070	5.08%	0.06
6	Janata Dal	LDF	1	6,33,104	4.40%	0.11
7	Kerala Congress (M)	UDF	1	3,56,168	2.66%	0.04
8	Revolutionary Socialist Party	LDF	1	3,59,786	2.50%	0.09
9	Indian Congress (Secular)	LDF	0	3,32,622	2.31%	0.39
10	Kerala Congress	LDF	0	3,20,539	2.23%	0.01
11	Peoples Democratic Party	none	0	64,950	0.45%	new
12	Bahujan Samaj Party	none	0	22,139	0.15%	0.01
13	Janata Party	none	0	13,557	0.01%	0.12
14	All India Forward Bloc	none	0	12,837	0.09%	new
15	Shiv Sena	none	0	5,609	0.02%	new
16	Indian National League	none	0	1,354	0.01%	new
17	Nagaland Peoples Party	none	0	1,066	0.01%	new
18	Samata Party	none	0	721	0.01%	new
Independents			1	10,02,198	6.97%	0.76

By constituency

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No.	Constituency	UDF candidate	Votes	%	Party	LDF candidate	Votes	%	Party	BJP / Other candidates	Votes	%	Party	Winning alliance	Margin
1	Kasaragod	I. Rama Rai	2,97,267	36.6%	INC	T. Govindan	371,997	45.8%	CPI(M)	P. K. Krishnadas	97,577	12.0%	BJP	LDF	74,730
2	Kannur	Mullappally Ramachandran	3,71,924	48.0%	INC	Kadannappalli Ramachandran	3,32,622	42.9%	IC(S)	M. K. Saseeindran	30,511	3.9%	BJP	UDF	39,302
3	Vatakara	K. P. Unnikrishnan	3,35,950	40.7%	INC	O. Bharathan	4,15,895	50.4%	CPI(M)	A. D. Nair	49,971	6.1%	BJP	LDF	79,945
4	Kozhikode	K. Muraleedharan	3,16,862	41.8%	INC	M. P. Veerendra Kumar	3,55,565	46.9%	JD	K. P. Sreesan	56,942	7.5%	BJP	LDF	38,703
5	Manjeri	E. Ahammed	3,76,001	47.3%	IUML	C. H. Ashiq	3,21,030	40.3%	CPI(M)	Cherukattu Vasudevan	54,550	6.9%	BJP	UDF	54,971
6	Ponnani	G. M. Banatwalla	3,54,808	48.4%	IUML	Mokkath Rahmathulla	2,75,513	37.6%	CPI	K. Janachandran	56,234	7.7%	BJP	UDF	79,295
7	Palakkad	V. S. Vijayaraghavan	3,19,841	43.3%	INC	N. N. Krishnadas	3,43,264	46.5%	CPI(M)	M. V. Sukumaran	37,221	5.0%	BJP	LDF	23,423
8	Ottapalam	K. K. Vijayalakshmi	3,00,958	43.3%	INC	S. Ajayakumar	3,24,022	46.6%	CPI(M)	K. V. Kumaran	49,296	7.1%	BJP	LDF	23,064
9	Thrissur	K. Karunakaran	3,07,002	43.3%	INC	V. V. Raghavan	3,08,482	43.6%	CPI	Rema Reghunandan	41,139	5.8%	BJP	LDF	1,480
10	Mukundapuram	P. C.Chacko	3,49,801	46.7%	INC	V. Viswanatha Menon	3,25,044	43.4%	CPI(M)	Narayana Iyer	35,227	4.7%	BJP	UDF	24,757
11	Ernakulam	K. V. Thomas	3,05,094	41.8%	INC	Xavier Arrakkal	3,35,479	46.0%	IND	O. M. Mathew	46,559	6.4%	BJP	LDF	30,385
12	Muvattupuzha	P. C. Thomas	3,82,319	53.1%	KC(M)	Baby Kurien	2,60,423	36.2%	IND	Narayanan Namboothiri	50,738	7.7%	BJP	UDF	1,21,896
13	Kottayam	Ramesh Chennithala	3,30,447	45.9%	INC	Jayalakshmi	2,77,539	39.6%	JD	A. K. Achary	29,319	4.2%	IND	LDF	67,048
14	Idukki	A. C. Jose	3,50,679	48.0%	INC	K. Francis George	3,20,539	43.9%	KEC	D. Ashok Kumar	32,107	4.4%	BJP	UDF	30,140
15	Alappuzha	V. M. Sudheeran	3,69,539	48.7%	INC	T. J. Anjalose	3,43,590	45.3%	CPI(M)	Nedumuthara Unnikrishnan	17,990	2.4%	BJP	UDF	25,949
16	Mavelikkara	P. J. Kurien	2,90,524	45.9%	INC	M. R. Gopalakrishnan	2,69,448	42.5%	CPI(M)	K. K. R. Kumar	45,325	7.2%	BJP	UDF	21,076
17	Adoor	Kodikkunnil Suresh	3,51,872	51.6%	INC	P. K. Raghavan	2,86,327	42.0%	CPI	Kainakari Janardhanan	21,609	3.2%	BJP	UDF	65,545
18	Kollam	S. Krishnakumar	2,81,416	38.1%	INC	N. K. Premachandran	3,59,786	48.7%	RSP	Nina Rajan Pillai	57,917	7.8%	IND	LDF	78,370
19	Chirayinkil	Thalekkunnil Basheer	2,81,996	40.5%	INC	A. Sampath	3,30,079	47.4%	CPI(M)	R. Radhakrishnan Unnithan	30,348	4.4%	BJP	LDF	48,083
20	Trivandrum	A. Charles	2,91,820	40.5%	INC	K. V. Surendranath	3,12,622	43.4%	CPI	K. Raman Pillai	74,904	10.4%	BJP	LDF	20,802

See also

• Elections in Kerala
• Politics of Kerala

References

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