- Nagercoil (Lok Sabha constituency)
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Nagercoil was a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu, India. K. Kamaraj Nadar, the first elected Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was elected twice to the Lok Sabha from here.
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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 pontential 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 M. Mathias. Despite the efforts, Kamaraj won decisively with a 1,28,201 votes margin on 8 January 1969.[1]
Assembly segments
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.
List of elected members
Year Winner Party Runner-up Party 1951 A. Nesamony TNC Sivathanu Pillai IND 1957 P. Thanulinga Nadar INC Chellaswamy IND 1962 A. Nesamony INC P. Vivekananda IND 1967 A. Nesamony INC M. Mathias SWA 1969 (by-election) K. Kamaraj Nadar INC M. Mathias IND 1971 K. Kamaraj Nadar NCO M. C. Balan DMK 1977 Kumari Ananthan NCO M. Moses INC 1980 N. Dennis INC P. Vijayaraghavan JNP 1984 N. Dennis INC P. Vijayaraghavan JNP 1989 N. Dennis INC D. Kumaradoss JD 1991 N. Dennis INC P. Mohammad Ismail JD 1996 N. Dennis TMC (M) Pon. Radhakrishnan BJP 1998 N. Dennis TMC (M) Pon. Radhakrishnan BJP 1999 Pon Radhakrishnan BJP N. Dennis INC 2004 A. V. Bellarmin CPI (M) Pon. Radhakrishnan BJP 2009 J.Helan Davidson (1st lady MP in Nagercoil) DMK (M) Pon. Radhakrishnan BJP 2009
In the last Parliamentary election J.Helan Davidson of Dravida Muntra Kalagam (DMK)) won with 320161 (41.81%) votes against Mr. P. Radhakrishnan of Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) with 254474 (33.24%) votes.
No of Electors: 1110014 No of Polling Stations: 1062
General Election, 2009: Kanyakumari Party Candidate Votes % ±% DMK J. Helen Davidson 320161 41.81% BJP P. Radhakrishnan 254474 33.24% Majority 320161 41.81% Turnout 765662 68.98% DMK hold Swing UPA gain from NDA Swing References
- ^ P. Kandaswamy. The political career of K. Kamraj. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. pp. 122–124. http://books.google.com/books?id=bOjT3qffnMkC&pg=PA118&dq=1967+tamil+nadu+elections+rice&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- ^ "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies". Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. http://archive.eci.gov.in/se2001/background/S22/TN_ACPC.pdf. Retrieved 2008-10-13.
Bibliography
- Volume I, 1951 Indian general election, 1st Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1957 Indian general election, 2nd Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1962 Indian general election, 3rd Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1967 Indian general election, 4th Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1971 Indian general election, 5th Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1977 Indian general election, 6th Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1980 Indian general election, 7th Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1984 Indian general election, 8th Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1989 Indian general election, 9th Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1991 Indian general election, 10th Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1996 Indian Lok Sabha election, 11th Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1998 Indian general election, 12th Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 1999 Indian general election, 13th Lok Sabha
- Volume I, 2004 Indian general election, 14th Lok Sabha
See also
Categories:- Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu abolished in 2008
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