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State:	Kerala
Constituency:	Mavelikara
Total Votes Polled:	633593
Winner: INC	P J Kurien	290524
Runner Up: CPM	M R Gopalakrishnan	269448
Margin: 21076 (3.41%)

In 1977 journalist B G Verghese contested from here as an Independent, and actually was runner-up behind the Congress's B K Nair. In the last three elections, it has returned the Congress strongman P J Kurien, whose percentage of votes earned has dipped from 51.1 % to 47.02 % in the same period.