Coimbatore (Lok Sabha constituency)
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Coimbatore | |
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Lok Sabha Constituency | |
Incumbent | P. R. Natarajan |
Parliamentary Party | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Elected Year | 2019 Indian general election |
Constituency Details | |
Established | 2009-present |
State | Tamil Nadu |
Total Electors | 20,38,577 [1] |
Assembly Constituencies | Palladam Sulur Kavundampalayam Coimbatore (North) Coimbatore (South) Singanallur |
Coimbatore is a Lok Sabha constituency in western Tamil Nadu, India. It is the largest city of the Western region of Tamil Nadu and the district headquarters of the Coimbatore district.
Assembly segments[edit]
Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:
Constituency number | Name | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | District | Party |
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115 | Palladam | None | Tiruppur | AIADMK |
116 | Sulur | None | Coimbatore | AIADMK |
117 | Kavundampalayam | None | Coimbatore | AIADMK |
118 | Coimbatore North | None | Coimbatore | AIADMK |
120 | Coimbatore South | None | Coimbatore | BJP |
121 | Singanallur | None | Coimbatore | AIADMK |
Before delimitation in 2009, it consisted of the following constituencies: Singanallur, Coimbatore West, Coimbatore East, Perur, Palladam and Tiruppur.[2]
Members of the Parliament[edit]
Lok Sabha | Duration | Winner | Party | Result | Victory Margin | 1st Runner | Opp.Party | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1952 | T. A. Ramalingam Chettiar | INC | Won | n/a | Returned Uncontested | n/a | |
1 | 1952-57 | N. M. Lingam | INC | Won | 41,327 | Parvathi Krishnan | CPI | Bye-election following the demise of T. A. Ramalingam Chettiar |
2 | 1957-62 | Parvathi Krishnan | CPI | Won | 15012 | P. S. Rangaswamy | INC | |
3 | 1962-67 | P. R. Ramakrishnan | INC | Won | 42,561 | Parvathi Krishnan | CPI | Closely contested 3 party election with G.K.Sundaram of Swatantra Party coming as second runner |
4 | 1967-71 | K. Ramani | CPI(M) | Won | 65,921 | N. Mahalingam | INC | |
5 | 1971-73 | K. Baladhandayutham | CPI | Won | 77,053 | Ramaswamy | NCO | Closely contested 3 party election with K. Ramani of CPI(M) coming as second runner |
5 | 1974-77 | Parvathi Krishnan | CPI | Won | n/a | n/a | n/a | Bye-election |
6 | 1977-78 | Parvathi Krishnan | CPI | Won | 21,178 | S. V. Lakshmanan | NCO | |
7 | 1980-84 | Era Mohan | DMK | Won | 56,109 | Parvathi Krishnan | CPI | |
8 | 1984-89 | C. K. Kuppuswamy | INC | Won | 1.02.519 | R. Umanath | CPI(M) | |
9 | 1989-91 | C. K. Kuppuswamy | INC | Won | 1.40.068 | R. Umanath | CPI(M) | |
10 | 1991-96 | C. K. Kuppuswamy | INC | Won | 1.86.064 | K. Ramani | CPI(M) | . |
11 | 1996-98 | M. Ramanathan | DMK | Won | 2,62,787 | C. K. Kuppuswamy | INC | |
12 | 1998-99 | C. P. Radhakrishnan | BJP | Won | 1,44,676 | K. R. Subbaiyan | DMK | |
13 | 1999-04 | C. P. Radhakrishnan | BJP | Won | 54,077 | R. Nallakannu | CPI | |
14 | 2004-09 | K. Subbarayan | CPI | Won | 1,63,151 | C. P. Radhakrishnan | BJP | |
15 | 2009-14 | P. R. Natarajan | CPI(M) | Won | 38,664 | R. Prabhu | INC | |
16 | 2014-19 | P. Nagarajan | AIADMK | Won | 42,016 | C. P. Radhakrishnan | BJP | . |
17 | 2019-incumbent | P. R. Natarajan[3] | CPI(M) | Won | 1,79,143 | C. P. Radhakrishnan | BJP | . |
Election results[edit]
General Election, 2019[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI (M) | P. R. Natarajan | 5,71,150 | 45.66 | +42.75 | |
BJP | C. P. Radhakrishnan | 3,92,007 | 31.34 | -1.78 | |
MNM | R. Mahendran | 1,45,104 | 11.60 | New | |
NTK | S. Kalyana Sundaram | 60,519 | 4.84 | New | |
AMMK | N.R. Appadurai | 38,061 | 3.04 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 23,190 | 1.85 | +0.37 | |
Majority | 1,79,143 | 14.32 | +10.75 | ||
Turnout | 12,50,929 | 63.86 | -4.17 | ||
Registered electors | 19,58,577 | ||||
CPI (M) gain from AIADMK | Swing |
General Election, 2014[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIADMK | P. Nagarajan | 4,31,717 | 36.69 | ||
BJP | C. P. Radhakrishnan | 3,89,701 | 33.12 | ||
DMK | K. Ganesh Kumar | 2,17,083 | 18.45 | ||
INC | R. Prabhu | 56,962 | 4.84 | ||
CPI (M) | P. R. Natarajan | 34,197 | 2.91 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 17,428 | 1.48 | ||
Majority | 42,016 | 3.57 | |||
Turnout | 11,76,620 | 68.40 | |||
AIADMK gain from CPI (M) | Swing |
General Election, 2009[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI (M) | P. R. Natarajan | 2,93,165 | 35.58 | ||
INC | R. Prabhu | 2,54,501 | 30.88 | +30.88 | |
style="background-color: Template:Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam|Template:Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/shortname]] | E. R. Eswaran | 1,28,070 | 15.54 | |
DMDK | R. Pandian | 73,188 | 8.88 | ||
BJP | Dr. G. K. S. Selvakumar | 37,909 | 4.60 | ||
Majority | 38,664 | 4.70 | |||
Turnout | 8,24,047 | 70.81 | |||
CPI (M) hold | Swing |
General Election, 2004[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI | K. Subbarayan | 5,04,981 | 57.46 | ||
BJP | C. P. Radhakrishnan | 3,40,476 | 38.74 | ||
Independent | S Vellingiri | 11,562 | 1.32 | ||
BSP | A Noor Muhammad | 4,484 | 0.51 | ||
SHS | Mani Moogambakai | 4,437 | 0.50 | ||
Majority | 1,64,505 | 18.72 | |||
Turnout | 8,78,866 | ||||
CPI (M) gain from BJP | Swing |
General Election, 1999[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | C. P. Radhakrishnan | 4,30,068 | 49.21 | ||
CPI | R. Nallakannu | 3,75,991 | 43.02 | ||
TMC | SR Balasubramoniam | 45,205 | 5.17 | ||
Majority | 54,077 | 6.19 | |||
Turnout | 8,74,020 | 55.62 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
General Election, 1998[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | C. P. Radhakrishnan | 4,49,269 | 55.85 | ||
DMK | K. R. Subbian | 3,04,593 | 37.86 | ||
INC | R Krishnan | 40,739 | 5.06 | ||
BSP | S. T. Kalyanasundaram | 4,596 | 0.57 | ||
Majority | 1,44,676 | 17.99 | |||
Turnout | 8,04,485 | 53.80 | |||
BJP gain from DMK | Swing |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Constituency(PC) wise summary table Archived 11 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
- ↑ "General elections to the 17th Lok Sabha, 2019 - List of members elected" (PDF). New Delhi: Election Commission of India. 25 May 2019. p. 26. Retrieved 2 June 2019.