Elections 98

State:	Kerala
Constituency:	Trichur
Total Votes Polled:	729425
Winner: CPI	V.V. Raghavan	340216
Runner Up: INC	K. Muraleedharan	321807
Margin: 18409 (5%)

Elections 96

State:	Kerala
Constituency:	Trichur
Total Votes Polled:	708216
Winner: CPI	V V Raghavan	308482
Runner Up: INC	K Karunakaran	307002
Margin: 1480 (0.21%)

After the 1952 elections which the Congress won, the Communists dominated this constituency till 1980. In 1984, the Congress made a comeback, but the Communists wrested back the seat in 1996 with V V Raghavan of the CPI defeating the Congress candidate by about 1,480 votes. His name: K Karunakaran. The BJP candidate won 41,539 votes.