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
Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency Details
Established1957-2008 and Kanyakumari) since 2009
StateTamil Nadu
Total Electors1493509
Assembly ConstituenciesNagercoil, Kanyakumari, Colachel, Padmanabhapuram, Killiyur, Vilavancode

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:

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 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 Indian National Congress M. Mathias Independent
1971 K. Kamarajar 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 Bharatiya Janata Party N. Dennis Indian National Congress
2004 A. V. Bellarmin Communist Party of India (Marxist) Pon. Radhakrishnan Bharatiya Janata Party

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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