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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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]
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.
| 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 |
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 | ||||