2004 Indian general election in Kerala

2004 Indian general election

April–May 2004
20 seats
First party Second party Third party   Party CPI (M) CPI INC Alliance LDF Left Democratic Front UPA Last election 8 0 8 Seats won 12 3 0 Seat change 4 3 8 Percentage 31.52% 7.89% 32.13%   Fourth party   Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/symbol Party BJP Alliance NDA Last election 0 Seats won 0 Seat change +1 Percentage 10.38%
Kerala

The 2004 Indian general election in Kerala were held for 20 Lok Sabha seats in the state. The result was an overwhelming victory for the Left Democratic Front (LDF) which won 15 seats. Indian National Congress, who had won 8 seats in the 1999 elections, won none this election. The other 5 seats were won by Kerala Congress (1), P.C. Thomas's Indian Federal Democratic Party (1), Indian Union Muslim League (1), Janata Dal (Secular) (1), and by an LDF supported Independent candidate (1).

In the aftermath of this election, the then Chief Minister of the state A. K. Antony resigned taking sole responsibility for the INC's poor electoral performance. Despite this, the outside support from the Left Front proved valuable for Congress to have a stable government in the Lok Sabha for the next 5 years.

List of elected MPs

No.	Constituency	Name of Elected M.P.	Party Affiliation
1	Kasaragod	P. Karunakaran	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2	Kannur	A. P. Abdullakutty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
3	Vatakara	P. Satheedevi	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4	Kozhikode	M. P. Veerendra Kumar	Janata Dal (Secular)
5	Manjeri	T. K. Hamza	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
6	Ponnani	E. Ahammed	Indian Union Muslim League
7	Palakkad	N. N. Krishnadas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
8	Ottapalam	S. Ajaya Kumar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
9	Thrissur	C. K. Chandrappan	Communist Party of India
10	Mukundapuram	Lonappan Nambadan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
11	Ernakulam	Sebastian Paul	Independent
12	Muvattupuzha	P. C. Thomas	Indian Federal Democratic Party
13	Kottayam	K. Suresh Kurup	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
14	Idukki	K. Francis George	Kerala Congress
15	Alappuzha	K. S. Manoj	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
16	Mavelikkara	Adv. C. S. Sujatha	Communist Party of India(Marxist)
17	Adoor	Chengara Surendran	Communist Party of India
18	Kollam	P. Rajendran	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
19	Chirayankil	Varkala Radhakrishnan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
20	Thiruvananthapuram	P. K. Vasudevan Nair	Communist Party of India
		Pannyan Raveendran	Communist Party of India

Results

By alliance

Coalition/Alliance	Parties contesting in Kerala from the Alliance in 1999	Seats won in 1999 Election	Parties contesting in Kerala from the Alliance in 2004	Seats won in 2004 Election	Swing
Left Democratic Front	Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (Marxist) (8)	8	Communist Party of India (3) Communist Party of India (Marxist) (12) Janata Dal (Secular) (1) Kerala Congress (J) (1) Independent (1)	18	10
United Democratic Front	Indian National Congress Indian Union Muslim League (2) Kerala Congress (1)	8	Indian National Congress Indian Union Muslim League (1) Kerala Congress	1	8
National Democratic Alliance	Bharatiya Janata Party Janata Dal (United)	0	Kerala Congress (1) P.C. Thomas's Indian Federal Democratic Party 1)	1	1

• Note:
  1. UPA was not in existence in 1999, instead the number of seats won in 1999 represents the seats won by Indian National Congress
  2. UDF, is a coalition in Kerala, that was formed in 2001, that includes the Indian National Congress, and splinter Congress groups in Kerala.
  3. Left front, was not part of the UPA, in 2004, instead gave outside support.
  4. P. C. Thomas's Indian Federal Democratic Party, later merged with Kerala Congress and the United Democratic Front.

By Party

Party	Alliance	Seats Contested	Seats	Change	Votes	%	±pp
Indian National Congress	UDF	17	0	8	4,846,637	32.13	7.27
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Left Democratic Front	13	12	8	4,754,567	31.52	3.62
Communist Party of India	Left Democratic Front	4	3	3	1,190,526	7.89	0.29
Bharatiya Janata Party	NDA	19	0		15,66,569	10.38	3.78
Indian Union Muslim League	UDF	2	1	1	733,228	4.86	0.44
Kerala Congress (J)	Left Democratic Front	1	1	1	353,905	2.35	new
Janata Dal (Secular)	Left Democratic Front	1	1	1	340,111	2.25	0.05
Indian Federal Democratic Party	NDA	1	1	new	256,411	1.7	new
Kerala Congress (Mani)	UDF	1	0	1	209,880	1.39	0.91
Bahujan Samaj Party	none	14	0		74,656	0.49	0.48
Peoples Democratic Party (India)	none	1	0	new	45,720	0.3	new
Janata Dal (United)	NDA	4	0		7,806	0.05	1.25
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation	None	1	0	new	3,270	0.02	new
Social Action Party	none	1	0	new	2,987	0.02	new
All Kerala M.G.R. Dravida Munnetra Party	none	1	0	new	2,158	0.01	new
Independent	Left Democratic Front	1	1	3	323042	2.14
Total		177	20	–	15,086,428	–

By constituency

No.	Constituency	UDF candidate	Votes	%	Party	LDF candidate	Votes	%	Party	NDA candidate	Votes	%	Party	Winning alliance	Margin
1	Kasaragod	N. A. Mohammed	3,29,028	36.5	INC	P. Karunakaran	4,37,284	48.5	CPI(M)	V. Balakrishna Shetty	1,10,328	12.2	BJP	Left Democratic Front	1,08,256
2	Kannur	Mullappally Ramachandran	3,51,209	40.8	INC	A. P. Abdullakutty	4,35,058	50.5	CPI(M)	O. K. Vasu	47,213	5.4	BJP	Left Democratic Front	83,849
3	Vatakara	M. T. Padma	2,98,705	36.1	INC	P. Satheedevi	4,29,294	51.8	CPI(M)	K. P. Sreesan	81,901	9.9	BJP	Left Democratic Front	1,30,589
4	Kozhikode	V. Balaram	2,74,785	35.2	INC	M.P. Veerendra Kumar	3,40,111	43.5	JD(S)	M. T. Ramesh	97,711	12.5	BJP	Left Democratic Front	65,326
5	Manjeri	K. P. A. Majeed	3,79,177	41.8	IUML	T. K. Hamza	4,26,920	47.1	CPI(M)	Uma Unni	84,149	9.3	BJP	Left Democratic Front	47,743
6	Ponnani	E. Ahammed	3,54,051	48.5	IUML	P. P. Suneer	2,51,293	34.4	CPI	Aravindan	71,609	9.8	BJP	UDF	1,02,758
7	Palakkad	V. S. Vijaya Raghavan	2,76,986	33.7	INC	N. N. Krishnadas	3,75,144	45.7	CPI(M)	C. Udai Bhasker	1,47,792	18	BJP	Left Democratic Front	98,158
8	Ottapalam	K. A. Thulasi	3,25,518	40.3	INC	S. Ajaya Kumar	3,95,928	49	CPI(M)	Velayudhan	68,193	8.5	BJP	Left Democratic Front	70,410
9	Thrissur	A. C. Jose	2,74,999	40	INC	C. K. Chandrappan	3,20,960	46.7	CPI	P. S. Sreeraman	72,042	10.5	BJP	Left Democratic Front	45,961
10	Mukundapuram	Padmaja Venugopal	2,58,078	35.7	INC	Lonappan Nambadan	3,75,175	51.9	CPI(M)	Mathew Pailee	62,338	8.6	BJP	Left Democratic Front	1,17,097
11	Ernakulam	Edward Edezhath	2,52,943	38.4	INC	Sebastian Paul	3,23,042	49	IND-LDF	O. G. Thankappan	60,697	9.2	BJP	Left Democratic Front	70,099
12	Muvattupuzha	Jose K. Mani	2,09,880	28	KEC(M)	P. M. Ismail	2,55,882	34.3	CPI(M)	P. C. Thomas	2,56,411	34.4	IFDP	NDA	529
13	Kottayam	Anto Antony	2,98,299	42.3	KCM	K. Suresh Kurup	3,41,213	48.3	CPI(M)	B. Radhakrishna Menon	53,034	7.5	BJP	Left Democratic Front	42,914
14	Idukki	Benny Behanan	2,84,521	39	INC	K. Francis George	3,53,905	48.5	KEC	S. T. B. Mohandas	58,290	8	BJP	Left Democratic Front	69,384
15	Alappuzha	V. M. Sudheeran	3,34,485	45.8	INC	K. S. Manoj	3,35,494	46	CPI(M)	V. Padmanabhan	43,891	6	BJP	Left Democratic Front	1,009
16	Mavelikkara	Ramesh Chennithala	2,70,867	42	INC	Adv. C. S. Sujatha	2,78,281	43.2	CPI(M)	S. Krishnakumar	83,013	12.9	NDA	Left Democratic Front	7,414
17	Adoor	Kodikunnil Suresh	2,77,682	40.6	INC	Chengara Surendran	3,32,216	48.5	CPI(M)	P. M. Velayudhan	61,907	9	BJP	Left Democratic Front	54,534
18	Kollam	Sooranad Rajasekharan	2,44,208	34.6	INC	P. Rajendran	3,55,279	50.4	CPI(M)	Kizhakkanela Sudhakaran	62,183	8.8	BJP	Left Democratic Front	1,11,071
19	Chirayinkil	M. I. Shanavas	2,62,870	39.3	INC	Varkala Radhakrishnan	3,13,612	46.8	CPI(M)	J. R. Padmakumar	71,982	10.7	BJP	Left Democratic Front	50,742
20	Trivandrum	V. S. Sivakumar	2,31,454	30.3	INC	P. K. Vasudevan Nair	2,86,057	37.5	CPI	O. Rajagopal	2,28,052	29.9	BJP	Left Democratic Front	54,603

2005 By-election

Due to the death of the sitting MP P. K. Vasudevan Nair, Trivandrum constituency went to bypolls. Turnout for the election was 68.15%

No.	Constituency	UDF candidate	Votes	%	Party	LDF candidate	Votes	%	Party	NDA candidate	Votes	%	Party	Winning alliance	Margin
20	Trivandrum	V. S. Sivakumar	3,16,124	41.63%	INC	Pannyan Raveendran	3,90,324	51.41%	CPI	C. K. Padmanabhan	36,690	4.83%	BJP	Left Democratic Front	74,200

References

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