Nagercoil (Lok Sabha constituency)

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. It has been now named as Kanyakumari (Lok Sabha constituency)

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 Marshal A. Nesamony TNC Sivathanu Pillai IND
1957 P. Thanulinga Nadar INC Chellaswamy IND
1962 Marshal A. Nesamony INC P. Vivekananda IND
1967 Marshal A. Nesamony INC M. Mathias SWA
1969 (by-election) K. Kamarajar INC M. Mathias IND
1971 K. Kamarajar INC M. C. Balan DMK
1977 Kumari Ananthan NCO M. Moses INC
1980 N. Dennis INC (I) Pon. Vijayaraghavan JNP
1984 N. Dennis INC Pon. 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

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 2008-10-31. Retrieved 2008-10-13.

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