Attingal Lok Sabha constituency

Attingal
Attingal
Lok Sabha Constituency
	Map of Attingal Parliament Constituency
Incumbent	Adoor Prakash
Parliamentary Party	INC
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	2009
Reservation	None
State	Kerala
Most Successful Party	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (2 times)
Assembly Constituencies	Varkala; Attingal; Chirayinkeezhu; Nedumangad; Vamanapuram; Aruvikkara; Kattakkada

Attingal Lok Sabha constituency (Malayalam: ആറ്റിങ്ങല്‍ ലോക്‌സഭാ നിയോജകമണ്ഡലം) is one of the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. This constituency came into existence in 2008 following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002.^[1]

Assembly segments[edit]

Attingal Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
127	Varkala	None	Thiruvananthapuram
128	Attingal	SC	Thiruvananthapuram
129	Chirayinkeezhu	SC	Thiruvananthapuram
130	Nedumangad	None	Thiruvananthapuram
131	Vamanapuram	None	Thiruvananthapuram
136	Aruvikkara	None	Thiruvananthapuram
138	Kattakkada	None	Thiruvananthapuram

Members of Parliament[edit]

As Chirayinkil

Election	Lok Sabha	Member		Tenure
Travancore-Cochin
1952	1st	V. Parameswaran Nayar	United Front of Leftists	1952-1967
After the Formation of Kerala
1957	2nd	M. K. Kumaran	Communist Party of India	1957-1962
1962	3rd	M. K. Kumaran	Communist Party of India	1962-1967
1967	4th	K. Anirudhan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1967-1971
1971	5th	Vayalar Ravi	Indian National Congress	1971-1977
1977	6th	Vayalar Ravi	Indian National Congress	1977-1980
1980	7th	A.A. Rahim	Indian National Congress (I)	1980-1984
1984	8th	Thalekunnil Basheer		1984-1989
1989	9th	Thalekunnil Basheer		1989-1991
1991	10th	Susheela Gopalan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1991-1996
1996	11th	A. Sampath		1996-1998
1996	12th	Varkala Radhakrishnan		1998-1999
1999	13th			1999-2004
2004	14th			2004-2009

As Attingal

Election	Lok Sabha	Member		Tenure
2009	15th	A. Sampath	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2009-2014
2014	16th	A. Sampath	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2014-2019
2019	17th	Adoor Prakash	Indian National Congress	Incumbent

Election results[edit]

General election 2019[edit]

2019 Indian general elections : Attingal
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Adoor Prakash	3,80,995	37.91	+0.31
	CPI (M)	A. Sampath	3,42,748	34.11	-11.56
	BJP	Shobha Surendran	2,48,081	24.69	+10.16
	SDPI	Ajmal Ismail	5,524	0.64	+0.65
	NOTA	None of the above
Margin of victory			38,247	3.80
Turnout			10,06,048	74.48
	INC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General election 2014[edit]

2014 Indian general election : Attingal
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	A. Sampath	392,478	45.67	+0.30
	INC	Bindhu Krishna	323,100	37.60	-5.23
	BJP	Girija Kumari S.	90,528	10.53	+3.94
	SDPI	M.K. Manoj Kumar	11,225	1.31	N/A
	BSP	Anil Kumar N.S.	8,586	1.00	-1.15
	NOTA	None of the above	6,924	0.81	---
Margin of victory			69,378	8.07	+5.53
Turnout			859,350	68.77
	CPI (M) hold		Swing	+0.30

References[edit]

↑ Nair, C. Gouridasan (23 January 2008). "New electoral landscape for the State Delimitation impact". The Hindu. Thiruvananthapuram. Archived from the original on 28 January 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2010.

External links[edit]

Election Commission of India: https://web.archive.org/web/20081218010942/http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp

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Coordinates: 8°40′48″N 76°49′48″E / 8.6800°N 76.8300°E / 8.6800; 76.8300

[1] Nair, C. Gouridasan (23 January 2008). "New electoral landscape for the State Delimitation impact". The Hindu. Thiruvananthapuram. Archived from the original on 28 January 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2010.

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