Thiruvananthapuram (Lok Sabha constituency)

Map of Thiruvananthapuram Parliament Constituency

Thiruvananthapuram is a Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala.

Assembly segments

Thiruvananthapuram Parliament constituency is composed of the following legislative assembly segments:^[1]

Members of Parliament

Travancore-Cochin

1951: Annie Mascarene, Independent

Kerala

1957: Easwara Iyer, Independent (defeating Pattom A. Thanu Pillai)
1962: P. S. Nataraja Pillai, Independent
1967: P. Viswambharan, Samyukta Socialist Party
1971: V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian National Congress
1977: M. N. Govindan Nair, Communist Party of India
1980: A. Neelalohithadasan Nadar, Indian National Congress (I)
1984: A. Charles, Indian National Congress
1989: A. Charles, Indian National Congress
1991: A. Charles, Indian National Congress
1996: K. V. Surendranath, Communist Party of India
1998: K. Karunakaran, Indian National Congress
1999: V. S. Sivakumar, Indian National Congress
2004: P. K. Vasudevan Nair, Communist Party of India
2005: Pannyan Raveendran, Communist Party of India
2009: Shashi Tharoor, Indian National Congress
2014: Shashi Tharoor, Indian National Congress

Indian general election, 2014

Candidate Profile

The below table provides the key information about the candidates from the information declared by them through the affidavits submitted with their nomination.

Candidate	Party	Age	Educational Qualification	Declared Assets (INR) ^{[note 1]}	Number of Criminal Cases
Candidate	Party	Age	Educational Qualification	Declared Assets (INR) ^{[note 1]}	Charges Framed (2+ yrs Custody)	Cognizance by Court	Convicted (1+ yr Custody)
O. Rajagopal	BJP	84	BA, BL	12,11,046	Nil	Nil	Nil
Bennet Abraham	CPI	55	Doctor of Medicine (MD)	2,66,99,353	Nil	1	Nil
Shashi Tharoor	INC	58	Ph.D, D.Lit. Doctoris Honoris Causa	23,04,32,061	Nil	Nil	Nil
Ajit Joy	AAP	45	L.L.M.(Harvard)	2,06,87,390	Nil	Nil	Nil

Election results

Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.

General Election 2014

Indian general election, 2014 : Thiruvananthapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Shashi Tharoor	2,97,806	34.09	-10.20
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	2,82,336	32.32	+20.92
	CPI	Bennet Abraham	2,48,941	28.50	-2.24
	AAP	Ajit Joy	14,153	1.62	---
	SDPI	Kunnil Shajahan	4,820	0.55
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,346	0.38	---
Margin of victory			15,470	1.77	-11.78
Turnout			873,441	68.63	+2.89
	INC hold		Swing	-10.20

General Election 2009

Indian general election, 2009: Thiruvananthapuram ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Shashi Tharoor	326,725	44.29	+3.35
	CPI	P. Ramachandran Nair	226,727	30.74	-41.91
	BSP	A. Neelalohithadasan Nadar	86,233	11.69
	BJP	P. K. Krishna Das	84,094	11.40
	NCP	M. P. Gangadharan	2,972	0.40
Margin of victory			99,998	13.55	+34.77
Turnout			737,641	65.74	-2.81
	INC gain from CPI		Swing	+45.26

Bye-Election 2005

Bye-Election, 2005: Thiruvananthapuram ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CPI	Pannyan Raveendran	390,324	51.41	+13.96
	INC	V. S.Sivakumar	316,124	41.64	+11.34
	BJP	C. K. Padmanabhan	36,690	4.83	-25.03
Margin of victory			74,200	9.77	+35.89
Turnout			759,237	68.13	-0.66
	CPI hold		Swing	+36.45

General Election 2004

Indian general election, 2004: Thiruvananthapuram ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CPI	P. K. Vasudevan Nair	286,057	37.45	+4.44
	INC	V.S.Sivakumar	231,454	30.30	-19.74
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	228,052	29.86	+44.14
Margin of victory			54,603	7.14	+276.96
Turnout			764,317	68.7	+0.9
	LDF gain from UDF		Swing	24.18%

General Election 1999

Indian general election, 1999: Thiruvananthapuram ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	V.S.Sivakumar	288,390	38.15	-14.53
	CPI	Kaniyapuram Ramachandran	273,905	36.23	-14.94
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	158,221	20.93	+67.78
Margin of victory			14,485	1.91	-5.93
Turnout			757,497	63.18%	-1.21
	UDF hold		Swing	-14.53%

General Election 1998

Indian general election, 1998: Thiruvananthapuram ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	K. Karunakaran	337,429	44.35%
	CPI	K.V. Surendranath	322,031	42.33
	BJP	Kerala Varma Raja	94,303	12.39
Margin of victory			15,398	2.01
Turnout			766,775	65.74
	UDF gain from LDF		Swing

General Election 1996

Indian general election, 1996: Thiruvananthapuram ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI	K.V. Surendranath	312,622	44.38
	INC	A. Charles	291,820	41.43
	BJP	K. Raman Pillai	74,904	10.63
Margin of victory			20,802	2.95
Turnout			721,087	64.56
	LDF gain from UDF		Swing

General Election 1991

Indian general election, 1991: Thiruvananthapuram ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	A. Charles	334,272	46.99
	CPI	E. J. Vijayamma	290,602	40.85
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	80,566	11.33
Margin of victory			43,670	6.14
Turnout			721,412	68.89
	UDF hold		Swing

General Election 1989

Indian general election, 1989: Thiruvananthapuram ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	A. Charles	367,825	49.02
	CPI	O. N. V. Kurup	316,912	42.23
	BJP	P. Asok Kumar	56,046	7.47
Margin of victory			50,913	6.79
Turnout			754,853	73.78
	UDF hold		Swing

General Election 1980

Indian general election, 1980: Thiruvananthapuram ^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Neelalohithadasan Nadar	273,818	60.90
	CPI	M. N. Govindan Nair	166,761	37.09
Margin of victory			107,057	23.81
Turnout			453,458	63.44
	UDF gain from LDF		Swing

General Election 1977

Indian general election, 1977: Thiruvananthapuram ^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI	M. N. Govindan Nair	2,44,277	56.32
	BLD	P. Vishwambharan	174,455	40.22
Margin of victory			69,822	16.1
Turnout			448,586	72.14

References

Notes

↑ Includes declared assets of self, spouse and dependents

Citations

↑ "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies" (PDF). Kerala. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
↑ "Indian Parliament Election Results 2009 (Lok Sabha polls 2009)- Kerala". Keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
↑ Bye Election -HPC. "Chief Electoral Officer, Kerala". Ceo.kerala.gov.in. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
↑ "Indian Parliament Election Results- Kerala 2004". Keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
↑ "Indian Parliament Election Results- Kerala 1999". Keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
↑ "Indian Parliament Election Results- Kerala 1998". Keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
↑ "Indian Parliament Election Results- Kerala 1996". Keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
↑ "Indian Parliament Election Results- Kerala 1991". Keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
↑ "Indian Parliament Election Results- Kerala 1989". Keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
↑ "Indian Parliament Election Results- Kerala 1980". Keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
↑ "Indian Parliament Election Results- Kerala 1977". Keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 2014-07-16.

External links

Election Commission of India: http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp

Lok Sabha constituencies of Kerala

Kasaragod Kannur Vatakara Wayanad Kozhikode Malappuram Ponnani Palakkad Alathur Thrissur Chalakudy Ernakulam Idukki Kottayam Alappuzha Mavelikara Pathanamthitta Kollam Attingal Thiruvananthapuram

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