Winner, Votes & Party Details
Kerala Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Kottayam Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1998 Results: Suresh Kurup of CPM won with 3,35,893 votes, defeating Ramesh Chennithala of INC, who received 3,30,447 votes. Suresh Kurup won by a margin of 5,446 votes, equivalent to 0.76% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 7,14,992.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
CPM
3,35,893
46.98%
3,30,447
46.22%
42,830
5.99%
3,756
0.53%
1,066
0.15%
IND
1,000
0.14%