2004 Indian general election in Kerala

The 2004 Indian general election in Kerala were held for 20 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Democratic Front won 18 seats out of 20 seats in the state. Indian National Congress, who had won 8 seats in the 1999 elections, won one in this election. The other seats were won by Kerala Congress, P.C. Thomas's Indian Federal Democratic Party, Indian Union Muslim League, Janata Dal (Secular), and by an LDF supported Independent candidate.
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.

Schedule

Event	Date
Date for Nominations	16 April 2004
Last Date for filing Nominations	23 April 2004
Date for scrutiny of nominations	24 April 2004
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	26 April 2004
Date of poll	10 May 2004
Date of counting	13 May 2004

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

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

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

Result- Party Wise