Nagercoil Lok Sabha constituency

Nagercoil
Nagercoil
Former Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
Assembly constituencies	Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Colachel, Padmanabhapuram, Killiyur, Vilavancode
Established	1957
Abolished	2009
Total electors	14,935,09
Reservation	None

Last updated August 20, 2025

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).

Kamarajar by-election victory

The death of A. Nesamony in 1968 led to a 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 was composed of the following assembly segments:^[2]

Colachel (moved to Kanniyakumari Constituency)
Killyur (moved to Kanniyakumari Constituency)
Nagercoil (moved to Kanniyakumari Constituency)
Padmanabhapuram (moved to Kanniyakumari Constituency)
Thiruvattar (defunct)
Vilavancode (moved to Kanniyakumari Constituency)

Members of the Parliament


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

In 2008, the Nagercoil constituency was renamed Kanyakumari. For results post-2008, please see Kanyakumari (Lok Sabha constituency)

Election results

Vote share of Winning candidates

2004			60.88%
1999			50.21%
1998			50.00%
1996			35.18%
1991			51.60%
1989			53.20%
1984			50.01%
1980			51.32%
1977			56.76%
1971			58.37%
1967			53.38%
1962			56.37%
1957			75.78%

General Elections 2004

2004 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	A. V. Bellarmin	410,091	60.88
	BJP	Pon Radhakrishnan	2,45,797	36.49	−13.72
	ABHM	T. Balasubramanian	4,612	0.68
	Independent	R. George Thomas	4,519	0.67
	Independent	B. Jamaludheen	3,336	0.50
Margin of victory			1,64,294	24.39	0.60
Turnout			6,73,555	60.69	1.89
Registered electors			11,10,014		4.94
	CPI(M) gain from BJP		Swing	10.68

General Elections 1999

1999 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pon Radhakrishnan	307,319	50.21	5.12
	INC	N. Dennis	1,61,676	26.41	21.72
	TMC(M)	Dr. Kumaradas	1,39,030	22.71
Margin of victory			1,45,643	23.79	18.87
Turnout			6,12,095	58.79	−1.09
Registered electors			10,57,712		2.85
	BJP gain from TMC(M)		Swing	15.03

General Elections 1998

1998 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC(M)	N. Dennis	296,611	50.00
	BJP	Pon Radhakrishnan	2,67,426	45.08	14.84
	INC	P. S. Stanislaus	27,821	4.69	−4.52
Margin of victory			29,185	4.92	−0.01
Turnout			5,93,176	58.32	−1.56
Registered electors			10,28,393		5.58
	TMC(M) hold		Swing	14.83

General Elections 1996

1996 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC(M)	N. Dennis	197,582	35.18
	BJP	Pon Radhakrishnan	1,69,885	30.25	11.43
	JD	P. Mohammad Ismail	1,30,753	23.28
	INC	Kumari Ananthan	51,726	9.21	−42.39
	AIIC(T)	A. Lawrance	5,248	0.93
Margin of victory			27,697	4.93	−18.10
Turnout			5,61,651	59.89	1.47
Registered electors			9,74,018		2.63
	TMC(M) gain from INC		Swing	-16.42

General Elections 1991

1991 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	N. Dennis	279,813	51.60	−1.60
	JD	P. Mohammad Ismail	1,54,900	28.56
	BJP	Pon Radhakrishnan	1,02,029	18.82	11.70
Margin of victory			1,24,913	23.04	8.72
Turnout			5,42,274	58.41	0.19
Registered electors			9,49,067		−0.41
	INC hold		Swing	-1.60

General Elections 1989

1989 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	N. Dennis	292,817	53.20	3.18
	JD	D. Kumaradas	2,14,020	38.88
	BJP	M. R. Gandhi	39,164	7.12
Margin of victory			78,797	14.32	11.84
Turnout			5,50,434	58.22	−9.39
Registered electors			9,52,947		32.17
	INC hold		Swing	3.18

General Elections 1984

1984 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	N. Dennis	235,365	50.01
	JP	P. Vijaya Raghavan	2,23,728	47.54
	Independent	S. Lekshmanan Pillai	7,957	1.69
	Independent	S. Murugan	3,539	0.75
Margin of victory			11,637	2.47	−8.06
Turnout			4,70,589	67.62	11.72
Registered electors			7,20,980		8.69
	INC gain from INC(I)		Swing	-1.30

General Elections 1980

1980 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC(I)	N. Dennis	187,111	51.32
	JP	P. Vijaya Raghavan	1,48,703	40.78
	Independent	A. Wilson	18,137	4.97
	Independent	Poomedai S. Lekshmanan Pillay	4,656	1.28
	Independent	A. J. George	2,612	0.72
	Independent	N. Duraiswamy Nadar	1,850	0.51
Margin of victory			38,408	10.53	−6.70
Turnout			3,64,605	55.90	−11.46
Registered electors			6,63,322		2.60
	INC(I) gain from INC(O)		Swing	-5.44

General Elections 1977

1977 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC(O)	Kumari Ananthan	244,526	56.76
	INC	M. Moses	1,70,290	39.53
	Independent	V. Emmanual	5,848	1.36
	Independent	Poomedai S. Lekshmanan Pillay	5,328	1.24
	Independent	S. Siluvai Pitchai	2,663	0.62
Margin of victory			74,236	17.23	−10.02
Turnout			4,30,815	67.36	−0.66
Registered electors			6,46,525		16.87
	INC(O) hold		Swing	-1.61

General Elections 1971

1971 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC(O)	K. Kamaraj	215,324	58.37
	DMK	M. C. Balan	1,14,771	31.11
	CPI(M)	P. Samuel	36,171	9.80
	Independent	P. Yonas	2,653	0.72
Margin of victory			1,00,553	27.26	11.85
Turnout			3,68,919	68.02	−4.82
Registered electors			5,53,220		16.66
	INC(O) gain from INC		Swing	4.98

General Elections 1967

1967 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. Nesamony	180,265	53.38	−2.98
	SWA	M. Mathias	1,28,251	37.98
	Independent	S. Chellaswamy	14,848	4.40
	Independent	P. Vivekananda	14,317	4.24
Margin of victory			52,014	15.40	−11.71
Turnout			3,37,681	72.84	6.22
Registered electors			4,74,210		10.04
	INC hold		Swing	-2.98

General Elections 1962

1962 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. Nesamony	157,208	56.37	−19.41
	Independent	P. Vivekananda	81,587	29.25
	Independent	A. Zachariah	20,403	7.32
	Independent	P. John Russel	19,698	7.06
Margin of victory			75,621	27.11	−24.44
Turnout			2,78,896	66.62	16.88
Registered electors			4,30,947		13.36
	INC hold		Swing	-19.41

General Elections 1957

1957 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	P. Thanulinga Nadar	143,288	75.78
	Independent	Chellaswamy	45,798	24.22
Margin of victory			97,490	51.56
Turnout			1,89,086	49.74
Registered electors			3,80,167
	INC gain from TTNC		Swing	24.93

General Elections 1951

1951–52 Indian general election : Nagercoil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TTNC	A. Nesamony	115,893	50.85
	Independent	Sivathanu Pillai	43,778	19.21
	Tamil Nadu Congress Party	Thanulingom Nadar	36,158	15.87
	SP	Sam Natheniel	32,075	14.07
Margin of victory			72,115	31.64
Turnout			2,27,904	66.41
Registered electors			3,43,195		0.00
	TTNC win (new seat)

References

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