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Indian general election held to elect 20 members
1989 Indian general election Turnout 79.30% ( 2.18%)
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
1
1
-
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
Left Democratic Front
Bharatiya Janata Party
No.
Party
Election Symbol
Seats Contested
1.
Bharatiya Janata Party
19
List of elected MPs
[ 5]
Results
[ 6]
Vote Share by alliance
Other (3.27%)
No.
Party
Political Front
Seats
Votes
%Votes
±pp
1
Indian National Congress
UDF
14
62,18,850
41.70%
8.43
2
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
LDF
2
34,11,227
22.87%
0.60
3
Communist Party of India
LDF
0
9,24,994
6.20%
1.17
4
Indian Union Muslim League
UDF
2
7,80,322
5.23%
0.06
5
Bharatiya Janata Party
0
6,72,613
4.51%
2.76
6
Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Singha
LDF
1
3,70,434
2.48%
1.90
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%
1.91
11
Janata Party
none
0
38,492
0.26%
1.87
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%
2.40
By constituency
[ 7]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
UDF
50,913
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