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Revision as of 03:03, 2 March 2021

1989 Indian general election
← 1984 November 1989 1991 →
20 seats
Turnout79.30% (Increase2.18%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party INC CPI(M) CPI
Alliance UDF LDF LDF
Last election 13 1 0
Seats won 14 2 0
Seat change Increase1 Increase1 -
Percentage 41.70% 22.87% 6.20%
  Fourth party
 
Party IUML
Alliance UDF
Last election 2
Seats won 2
Seat change -
Percentage 5.23%

The 1989 Indian general election were held to elect 20 members to the ninth Lok Sabha from Kerala.[1] Indian National Congress (INC)-led United Democratic Front (UDF) won 17 seats while Left Democratic Front (LDF), led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) won the remaining 3 seats.[2] Turnout for the election was at 79.30%[3] In the Lok Sabha, INC won plurality of seats, however Janata Dal (JD), led by V. P. Singh formed the government, albeit a short-lived one, with support from BJP and CPI(M).

Alliances and parties

[4]

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 19 seats.

United Democratic Front

No. Party Election Symbol Seats Contested
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;color:white" |1. Indian National Congress 17
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Indian Union Muslim League/meta/color;color:white" |2. Indian Union Muslim League 2
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Kerala Congress (Mani)/meta/color;color:white" |3. Kerala Congress (M) 1

Left Democratic Front

No. Party Election Symbol Seats Contested
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color;color:white" |1. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Key
Key
 10
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color;color:white" |2. Communist Party of India
Star
Star
 3
3. Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Singha 1
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;color:black" |4. Independents 3
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Janata Dal/meta/color;color:white" |5. Janata Dal 1
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color;color:white" |6. Revolutionary Socialist Party 1
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Kerala Congress/meta/color;color:black" |7. Kerala Congress 1

Bharatiya Janata Party

No. Party Election Symbol Seats Contested
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" |1. Bharatiya Janata Party 19

List of elected MPs

[5]

No. Constituency Name of Elected M.P. Party Affiliation
1 Kasaragod Ramanna Rai CPI(M)
2 Kannur Mullappally Ramachandran INC
3 Vatakara K. P. Unnikrishnan ICS(SCS)
4 Kozhikode K. Muraleedharan INC
5 Manjeri E. Ahamed IUML
6 Ponnani Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait IUML
7 Palakkad A. Vijayaraghavan CPI(M)
8 Ottapalam K. R. Narayanan INC
9 Thrissur P. A. Antony INC
10 Mukundapuram Savitri Lakshmanan INC
11 Ernakulam K. V. Thomas INC
12 Muvattupuzha P. C. Thomas KC(M)
13 Kottayam Ramesh Chennithala INC
14 Idukki K. M. Mathew INC
15 Alappuzha Vakkom Purushothaman INC
16 Mavelikkara P. J. Kurien INC
17 Adoor Kodikunnil Suresh INC
18 Kollam S. Krishna Kumar INC
19 Chirayankil Thalekunnil Basheer INC
20 Thiruvananthapuram A. Charles INC

Results

Performance of political parties

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Vote Share by alliance

  UDF (49.29%)
  LDF (42.93%)
  BJP (4.51%)
  Other (3.27%)
No. Party Political Front Seats Votes %Votes ±pp
1 Indian National Congress UDF 14 62,18,850 41.70% Increase8.43
2 Communist Party of India (Marxist) LDF 2 34,11,227 22.87% Increase0.60
3 Communist Party of India LDF 0 9,24,994 6.20% Decrease1.17
4 Indian Union Muslim League UDF 2 7,80,322 5.23% Decrease0.06
5 Bharatiya Janata Party NDA 0 6,72,613 4.51% Increase2.76
6 Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Singha LDF 1 3,70,434 2.48% Decrease1.90
7 Revolutionary Socialist Party LDF 0 3,59,393 2.41% new
8 Kerala Congress (M) UDF 1 3,52,191 2.36% new
9 Janata Dal LDF 0 2,77,682 1.86% new
10 Kerala Congress LDF 0 68,811 0.46% Decrease1.91
11 Janata Party none 0 38,492 0.26% Increase1.87
12 Bahujan Samaj Party none 0 17,762 0.12% new
13 Deseeya Karshaka Party none 0 3,059 0.02% new
14 Socialist Unity Centre of India none 0 2,151 0.01% new
Independents 0 14,14,560 9.49% Increase2.40

By constituency

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No. Constituency UDF candidate Votes % Party LDF candidate Votes % Party BJP / Other candidate Votes % Party Winning alliance Margin
1 Kasaragod I. Rama Rai 3,57,177 44.5% INC M. Rammana Rai 3,58,723 44.7% CPI(M) C. K. Padmanabhan 69,419 8.6% BJP style="background:Template:Left Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |LDF 1,546
2 Kannur Mullappally Ramachandran 3,91,042 50.1% INC P. Sasi 3,48,638 44.6% CPI(M) Palliyara Raman 31,266 4.0% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 42,404
3 Vatakara A. Sujanapal 3,62,225 45.5% INC K. P. Unnikrishnan 3,70,434 46.5% ICS(SCS) P. K. Krishnadas 45,558 5.7% BJP style="background:Template:Left Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |LDF 8,209
4 Kozhikode K. Muraleedharan 3,77,858 47.9% INC E. K. Imbichibava 3,48,901 44.3% CPI(M) P. S. Sreedharan Pillai 49,696 6.3% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 28,957
5 Manjeri Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait 4,01,975 49.6% IUML K. V. Salahuddin 3,31,693 40.9% IND Ahalya Sankar 51,634 7.0% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 70,282
6 Ponnani G. M. Banatwalia 3,78,347 53.2% IUML M. Rahmathulia 2,70,828 38.1% CPI K. Janachandran 48,892 6.9% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 1,07,519
7 Palakkad V. S. Vijayaraghavan 3,47,115 46.8% INC A. Vijayaraghavan 3,48,401 47.0% CPI(M) T. Chandrasekharan 27,220 3.7% BJP style="background:Template:Left Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |LDF 1,286
8 Ottapalam K. R. Narayanan 3,50,683 48.5% INC Lenin Rajendran 3,24,496 44.9% CPI(M) Lakshmanan 32,892 4.5% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 26,187
9 Thrissur P. A. Antony 3,38,271 47.0% INC Meenakshi Thampan 3,32,036 46.2% CPI K. V. Sreedharan 38,205 5.3% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 6,235
10 Mukundapuram Savithri Lakshmanan 3,67,931 48.5% INC C. O. Poulose 3,49,177 46.0% CPI(M) K. K. Gangadharan 28,781 3.8% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 18,754
11 Ernakulam K. V. Thomas 3,85,176 49.6% INC P. Subramnoian Poti 3,48,711 44.9% IND A. N. Radhakrishnan 29,162 3.8% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 36,465
12 Muvattupuzha P. C. Thomas 3,52,191 48.1% KC(M) P. J. Joseph 68,811 9.4% KEC C. Poulose 2,83,380 38.7% IND style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 68,811
13 Kottayam Ramesh Chennithala 3,84,809 51.1% INC K. Suresh Kurup 3,31,276 44.0% CPI(M) Ettumanoor Radhakrishnan 18,449 2.5% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 53,533
14 Idukki K. M. Mathew 3,98,516 53.4% INC M. C. Josephine 3,07,037 41.1% CPI(M) M. N. Jayachandran 25,354 3.4% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 91,479
15 Alappuzha Vakkom Purushotham 3,75,763 50.0% INC K. V. Devadas 3,50,640 46.7% CPI(M) K. D. Ramakrishnan 15,127 2.0% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 25,123
16 Mavelikkara P. J. Kurian 3,34,864 50.9% INC Thampan Thomas 2,77,682 42.2% JD Prathapachandra Verma 30,229 4.6% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 57,182
17 Adoor Kodikunnil Suresh 3,43,672 49.6% INC N. Rajan 3,22,130 46.5% CPI E. K. Sasidharan 17,123 2.5% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 21,542
18 Kollam S. Krishnakumar 3,86,855 49.9% INC Babu Divakaran 3,59,393 46.4% RSP P. K. S. Rajeev 16,202 2.1% IND style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 27,462
19 Chirayinkil Thalekunnil Basheer 3,49,068 47.8% INC Susheela Gopalan 3,43,938 47.1% CPI(M) V. N. Gopalakrishnan Nair 23,049 3.2% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 5,130
20 Trivandrum A. Charles 3,67,825 48.6% INC O. N. V. Kurup 3,16,912 41.9% IND P. Asok Kumar 56,046 7.4% BJP style="background:Template:United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color" |UDF 50,913

See also

References

  1. ^ "General Election, 1989".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "PC: Kerala 1989".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1989 TO THE 9th LOK SABHA" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "PC: Alliances Kerala 1989".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Roy Mathew. "Indian Parliament Elections 1989: Kerala Winners". keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 2020-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "PC: Party-wise performance for 1989 Kerala".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "PC: Kerala 1989".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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