Vakkom Purushothaman : Political Career

Election history

            All the elections where a candidate by the name Vakkom Purushothaman contested in whether lost or won, by how many votes. His/ her vote share etc details all can be found here.
          

2001 for Vidhan Sabha from Attingal

WON against Kadakampally Surendran

with 54% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Vakkom Purushothaman	INC	51,139
Kadakampally Surendran	CPM	40,323
Beena V Nair	BJP	2,253
A.Aravind	IND	721
Rethnakaran	IND	585
Sree Mandiram Prathapan	IND	238

1996 for Vidhan Sabha from Attingal

LOST against Anathalavattom Anandan

with 48% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Anathalavattom Anandan	CPM	42,161
Vakkom Purushothaman	INC	41,145
S.Kuttappan Chettiar	IND	1,311
Aurangaseeb	PDP	553
K.Hari	IND	252
N.Sivadasan	SHS	226
N.Jagadanan	IND	186
K.V.Sathyavan	IND	174
Devadethan	IND	144
Hari	IND	142
D.Subhash Chandran Das	IND	109
Sathyaseelan Velayudhan	IND	96
Suprabha Dharmaseelan	IND	93

1991 for Lok Sabha from Alappuzha

LOST against T.J. Anjalose

with 48% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
T.J. Anjalose	CPM	364,794
Vakkom Purushothaman	INC	350,719
V.S. Vijayakumar	BJP	15,973
V. Venugopal	IND	2,170
Muhammed Abdul Khader	IND	691
M. Mohan Madhavan	IND	610
Venugopal Chellapan Pillai	IND	562

1982 for Vidhan Sabha from Attingal

WON against P. Vijayadas

with 53% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Vakkom B. Purushothaman	IND	31,791
P. Vijayadas	ICS	24,432
S. Kumaran Nair	IND	2,837
M. Thulasi	IND	347
Chirayinkil Gopakumar	IND	120

1980 for Vidhan Sabha from Attingal

WON against Vakkom Devarajan

with 59% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Vakkom Purushothaman	INC(U)	35,634
Vakkom Devarajan	IND	22,561
Vikramakumar	IND	1,527
P. Vasukutty	IND	290
Attingal V. Somanathan	IND	238

1970 for Vidhan Sabha from Attingal

WON against V. Sreedharan

with 58% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Vakkom Purushothaman	INC	33,637
V. Sreedharan	CPM	22,106
V. Vamadevan	IND	1,171
A. Chelappan Nair	IND	746