Coimbatore (Lok Sabha constituency)

Coimbatore
Coimbatore
Lok Sabha Constituency
	Coimbatore constituency, post-2008 delimitation
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
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 segmentsEdit

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

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Party
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 ParliamentEdit

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 resultsEdit

General Election, 2019Edit

2019 Indian general elections: Coimbatore
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, 2014Edit

2014 Indian general elections: Coimbatore
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, 2009Edit

2009 Indian general elections: Coimbatore
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	P. R. Natarajan	2,93,165	35.58
	INC	R. Prabhu	2,54,501	30.88	+30.88
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	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, 2004Edit

2004 Indian general elections: Coimbatore
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, 1999Edit

1999 Indian general election: Coimbatore
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, 1998Edit

[[1998 Indian general elections]: Coimbatore
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

ReferencesEdit

↑ 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.

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External linksEdit

Coimbatore lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

[1] Constituency(PC) wise summary table Archived 11 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "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.

[3] "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.

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