Thiruvananthapuram: BJP candidate and actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi appears poised for a win in the Thrissur Lok Sabha seat with a comfortable lead of over 71,000 votes against his nearest rival, according to the Election Commission figures on Tuesday.

Gopi, till around 1 pm, got 3,80,655 votes, surpassing the 2,93,822 total votes he received in the 2019 LS polls in Thrissur.

His nearest rival this time is CPI's V S Sunilkumar who got 3,09,519 votes and Congress' K Muraleedharan was third with 299675 votes.

Thrissur's total voters are a little over 14.83 lakh. According to latest updates, 10,81,125 votes were polled.

The actor had lost from Thrissur in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and then in the 2021 state assembly polls.