Nagercoil Lok Sabha constituency

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).

Nagercoil
Former Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency Details
CountryIndia
RegionSouth India
StateTamil Nadu
Assembly ConstituenciesNagercoil, Kanyakumari, Colachel, Padmanabhapuram, Killiyur, Vilavancode
Established1957
Abolished2009
Total electors1493509
ReservationNone

Kamarajar by-election victory

The death of A. Nesamony in 1968 led to the by-election in Nagercoil constituency. Realising the popularity of Kamaraj in this constituency and the potential danger posed by Kamaraj's election after the Indian National Congress party's debacle in 1967 election, C. Rajagopalachari wrote in Swarajya, the magazine of the Swatantra Party, about the need to defeat him and appealed to C. N. Annadurai to support M. Mathias, the Swatantra Party candidate. Annadurai deputed M. Karunanidhi, the then Minister for Public Works, to Nagercoil to work in support of Mathias. Despite the efforts, Kamaraj won decisively with a 1,28,201-vote margin on 8 January 1969.[1]

Assembly segments

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

Members of the Parliament
Year Member Party
1952 A. Nesamony Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress
1957 P. Thanulinga Nadar Indian National Congress
1962 A. Nesamony
1967
1969^ K. Kamaraj
1971 Indian National Congress (O)
1977 Kumari Ananthan
1980 N. Dennis Indian National Congress (I)
1984 Indian National Congress
1989
1991
1996 Tamil Maanila Congress
1998
1999 Pon Radhakrishnan Bharatiya Janata Party
2004 A. V. Bellarmin Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2009 onwards : See Kanyakumari

Election Results

General Election 2004
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
LF gain from NDA Swing

References
  1. P. Kandaswamy. The political career of K. Kamraj. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. pp. 122–124.
  2. "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.

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