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	NCO	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

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

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. Retrieved 2008-10-13.

Bibliography

Lok Sabha constituencies of Tamil Nadu

2009-present	Thiruvallur Chennai North Chennai South Chennai Central Sriperumbudur Kancheepuram Arakkonam Vellore Krishnagiri Dharmapuri Tiruvannamalai Arani Viluppuram Kallakurichi Salem Namakkal Erode Tiruppur Nilgiris Coimbatore Pollachi Dindigul Karur Tiruchirappalli Perambalur Cuddalore Chidambaram Mayiladuthurai Nagapattinam Thanjavur Sivaganga Madurai Theni Virudhunagar Ramanathapuram Thoothukkudi Tenkasi Tirunelveli Kanniyakumari

1977-2004	Chennai North Chennai Central Chennai South Sriperumbudur Chengalpattu Arakkonam Vellore Tiruppattur Vandavasi Tindivanam Cuddalore Chidambaram Dharmapuri Krishnagiri Rasipuram Salem Tiruchengode Nilgiris Gobichettipalayam Coimbatore Pollachi Palani Dindigul Madurai Periyakalum Karur Tiruchirappalli Perambalur Mayiladuthurai Nagapattinam Thanjavur Pudukkottai Sivaganga Ramanathapuram Sivakasi Tirunelveli Tenkasi Tiruchendur Nagercoil

1952-77	Kumbakonam

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