Kollam (Lok Sabha constituency)

Kollam Lok Sabha constituency (Malayalam: കൊല്ലം (ലോക്‌സഭാ നിയോജകമണ്ഡലം) (formerly Quilon Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala state in southern India.

Kollam
Lok Sabha Constituency
Map of Kollam Parliament Constituency
Incumbent	N. K. Premachandran
Parliamentary Party	RSP
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1952
Reservation	None
State	Kerala
Most Successful Party	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) (8 times)
Assembly Constituencies	Chavara Punalur Chadayamangalam Kundara Kollam Eravipuram Chathannoor

Assembly segments

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

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
117	Chavara	None	Kollam
121	Punalur	None	Kollam
122	Chadayamangalam	None	Kollam
123	Kundara	None	Kollam
124	Kollam	None	Kollam
125	Eravipuram	None	Kollam
126	Chathannoor	None	Kollam

Corporations & Municipalities coming under Kollam Lok Sabha constituency

• Kollam - Corporation
• Paravur - Municipality
• Punalur - Municipality

Members of Parliament

As Quilon Cum Mavelikkara in Travancore-Cochin

Election	Lok Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1952	1st	N. Sreekantan Nair		Revolutionary Socialist Party	1952-1957
		R. Velayudhan		Independent

As Quilon/Kollam

Election	Lok Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	2nd	V. Parmeswaran Nayar		United Front of Leftists
		P.K. Kodiyan		Communist Party of India	1957-1962
1962	3rd	N. Sreekantan Nair		Revolutionary Socialist Party	1962-1967
1967	4th				1967-1971
1971	5th				1971-1977
1977	6th				1977-1980
1980	7th	B.K. Nair		Indian National Congress (I)	1980-1984
1984	8th	S. Krishna Kumar			1984-1989
1989	9th				1989-1991
1989	10th				1991-1996
1996	11th	N. K. Premachandran		Revolutionary Socialist Party	1996-1998
1998	12th				1998-1999
1999	13th	P. Rajendran		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1999-2004
2004	14th				2004-2009
2009	15th	N. Peethambarakurup		Indian National Congress	2009-2014
2014	16th	N. K. Premachandran		Revolutionary Socialist Party	2014-2019
2019	17th				Incumbent

Election Result

2019

According to Election Commission, there are 12,59,400(Women-6,59,597, Men-5,99,797, Transgenders-6) registered voters in Kollam Constituency for 2019 Lok Sabha Election. Kollam Constituency was polled 74.36% of total electorate.

2019 Indian general election : Kollam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]]	N K Premachandran	4,99,667	51.61	+5.15
	CPI (M)	K. N. Balagopal	3,50,821	36.24	-5.94
	BJP	Adv. K V Sabu	1,03,339	10.67	+4.00
	NOTA	None of the above	6,018	0.6
Margin of victory			1,48,869	15.37	+11.09
Turnout			9,69,017	74.73
	[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] hold		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general election : Kollam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]]	N.K. Premachandran	4,08,528	46.46	N/A
	CPI (M)	M.A. Baby	3,70,879	42.18	-3.01
	BJP	P.M. Velayudhan	58,671	6.67	+2.27
	SDPI	A.K. Salahudeen	12,812	1.46	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	7,876	0.90%	---
Margin of victory			37,649	4.28	+1.95%
Turnout			8,79,056	72.12
style="background-color: Template:United Democratic Front (India)/meta/color" |	[[United Democratic Front (India)|Template:United Democratic Front (India)/meta/shortname]] hold		Swing

See also

• Kollam district
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha
• Indian general election, 2014 (Kerala)
• 2014 Indian general election

External links

• Election Commission of India: https://web.archive.org/web/20081218010942/http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp
• Kollam Lok Sabha Elections Asianet News survey results 2019