Nagercoil Lok Sabha constituency

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Nagercoil Lok Sabha constituency
Former Lok Sabha Constituency
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Constituency Details
Established1957
Abolished2009
ReservationNone
StateTamil Nadu
Total Electors1493509
Assembly ConstituenciesNagercoil, Kanyakumari, Colachel, Padmanabhapuram, Killiyur, Vilavancode

Nagercoil was a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu, India. K. Kamaraj. The first elected Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was elected twice to the Lok Sabha from here. It has been now named as Kanyakumari (Lok Sabha constituency).

Assembly segments[edit]

Nagercoil Lok Sabha constituency used to be composed of the following assembly segments:

Kanyakumari district which includes Nagercoil Lok Sabha constituency was a constituent of Travancore-Cochin state before merging with Tamil Nadu in 1956.[citation needed]

Members of the Parliament[edit]

Year Winner Picture Party Runner-up Party
1951 Marshal A. Nesamony Tamil Nadu Congress Sivathanu Pillai Independent
1957 P. Thanulinga Nadar Indian National Congress Chellaswamy Independent
1962 Marshal A. Nesamony Indian National Congress P. Vivekananda Independent
1967 Marshal A. Nesamony Indian National Congress M. Mathias Swatantra Party
1969 (by-election) K. Kamarajar Kamarajar.jpg Indian National Congress M. Mathias Independent
1971 K. Kamarajar Kamarajar.jpg Indian National Congress (Organisation) M. C. Balan Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1977 Kumari Ananthan Indian National Congress (Organisation) M. Moses Indian National Congress
1980 N. Dennis Indian National Congress (Indira) Pon. Vijayaraghavan Janata Party
1984 N. Dennis Indian National Congress Pon. Vijayaraghavan Janata Party
1989 N. Dennis Indian National Congress D. Kumaradoss Janata Dal
1991 N. Dennis Indian National Congress P. Mohammad Ismail Janata Dal
1996 N. Dennis Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) Pon. Radhakrishnan Bharatiya Janata Party
1998 N. Dennis Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) Pon. Radhakrishnan Bharatiya Janata Party
1999 Pon Radhakrishnan Pon Radhakrishnan.jpg Bharatiya Janata Party N. Dennis Indian National Congress
2004 A. V. Bellarmin Communist Party of India (Marxist) Pon. Radhakrishnan Bharatiya Janata Party

Election Results[edit]

General Election 2004[edit]

General Election, 2004: Nagercoil
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI (M) A. V. Bellarmin 410,091 60.87 n/a
BJP P. Radhakrishnan 245,797 36.48 -12.94
Majority 164,294 24.39 +0.97
Turnout 673,716 60.69 +1.90
CPI (M) gain from BJP Swing +60.87
Left Front (West Bengal) gain from NDA Swing

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2008.

Bibliography[edit]

See also[edit]

Coordinates: 8°10′N 77°26′E / 8.17°N 77.43°E / 8.17; 77.43

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