Thiruvananthapuram Parliamentary (Lok Sabha) Constituency is one of the 20 parliamentary constituencies in Kerala, India. It is located in Thiruvananthapuram district and encompasses the major part of Thiruvananthapuram city, the capital of Kerala State.
The incumbent MP of this constituency, Shashi Tharoor of the Indian National Congress, has been elected on 4 consecutive occasions: 2009, 2014, 2019 and 2024. He is the longest serving Member of Parliament to have represented the constituency.
Demographics This constituency is dominated By Nair and Nadar. As per the electoral roll for the 2024 polls, the total electorate is of 14,03,281 people including 7,27,469 women, 6,75,771 men and 41 transgender people. Out of total electorate, 26% is rural and 74% is urban. The Scheduled castes (SC) and Scheduled tribes (ST) is 9.82% and 0.45%, respectively of total electorate. The constituency also has highest proportion of Nadars and Converted Christians in Kerala.Nairs dominates the urban segments of Kazhakootam,Nemom,Vattiyoorkavu and Thiruvananthapuram While the Nadars are Concentrated on Neyyattinkara,Parassala,Kovalam.
As per the voter list published by the Election commission for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, there were 13,34,665 voters in the electorate and 1077 polling stations in this constituency. The voter turnout for the 2019 Lok Sabha election was 73.45% where as it was 68.63% and 65.74% in the 2014 and 2009 elections respectively.
Assembly segments
Thiruvananthapuram Parliament constituency is composed of the following legislative assembly segments: # Name District MemberParty2024 lead132KazhakootamThiruvananthapuramV. Muraleedharan 133VattiyoorkavuK. Muraleedharan134ThiruvananthapuramC. P. John135NemomRajeev Chandrasekhar137ParassalaC. K. Hareendran139KovalamM. Vincent140NeyyattinkaraN. Sakthan
Members of Parliament
Year MemberParty1952Annie Mascarene 1957Easwara Iyer1962P. S. Nataraja Pillai1967P. Viswambharan1971V. K. Krishna Menon1977M. N. Govindan Nair1980Neelalohithadasan Nadar1984A. Charles 198919911996K. V. Surendranath1998K. Karunakaran 1999V. S. Sivakumar2004P. K. Vasudevan Nair 2005^Pannian Ravindran2009Shashi Tharoor 201420192024 ^ indicates bypolls
Election results Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
General Elections 2029
General election 2024
By Assembly Segments (2024) No. Constituency1st Position PartyVotes%2nd PositionPartyVotes%3rd PositionPartyVotes% Lead132KazhakootamRajeev ChandrasekharBJP50,44440.56Shashi TharoorINC39,60231.84Pannyan RaveendranCPI34,38226.8110,842133VattiyoorkavuRajeev ChandrasekharBJP53,02542.02Shashi TharoorINC44,86335.52Pannyan RaveendranCPI28,33622.458,162134ThiruvananthapuramShashi TharoorINC48,29640.58Rajeev ChandrasekharBJP43,75536.78Pannyan RaveendranCPI27,07622.714,541135NemomRajeev ChandrasekharBJP61,22745.80Shashi TharoorINC39,10129.26Pannyan RaveendranCPI33,32224.9422,126137ParassalaShashi TharoorINC59,02638.93Pannyan RaveendranCPI46,65430.77Rajeev ChandrasekharBJP45,95730.3012,372139KovalamShashi TharoorINC64,04242.54Rajeev ChandrasekharBJP47,37631.48Pannyan RaveendranCPI39,13726.0016,666140NeyyattinkaraShashi TharoorINC58,74945.09Rajeev ChandrasekharBJP36,13627.68Pannyan RaveendranCPI35,52627.2322,613
General election 2019 There were 1,334,665 registered voters in Thiruvananthapuram Constituency for the 2019 Lok Sabha Election. The Constituency recorded a polling percentage of 73.45% of the total electorate.Indiancrux Party wise Results
Legislative Assembly wise Results No. Assembly 1st Position Party Votes % 2nd Position Party Votes % 3rd Position Party Votes % NOTA Margin 132 Kazhakootam Shashi TharoorINC 46964 35.50% K RajasekharanBJP 45479 34.38% C. DivakaranCPI 37688 28.49% 648 1385 133 Vattiyoorkavu Shashi TharoorINC 53545 39.46% K RajasekharanBJP 50709 37.37% C. DivakaranCPI 29414 21.67% 690 2836 134 Thiruvananthapuram Shashi TharoorINC 57077 43.98% K RajasekharanBJP 42877 33.08% C. DivakaranCPI 27530 21.23% 647 14200 135 Nemom K RajasekharanBJP 58513 41.40% Shashi TharoorINC 46472 32.88% C. DivakaranCPI 33921 24.00% 748 12041 137 Parassala Shashi TharoorINC 69944 42.57% C. DivakaranCPI 47942 29.18% K RajasekharanBJP 42887 26.10% 621 27057 139 Kovalam Shashi TharoorINC 73221 45.65% C. DivakaranCPI 42050 26.22% K RajasekharanBJP 41092 25.62% 616 32129 140 Neyyattinkara Shashi TharoorINC 66834 47.71% C. DivakaranCPI 37925 27.07% K RajasekharanBJP 32368 23.11% 583 34466
General Election 2014 Party wise Results
Legislative Assembly wise Results No. Assembly 1st Position Party Votes % 2nd Position Party Votes % 3rd Position Party Votes % NOTA Margin 132 Kazhakootam O. Rajagopal BJP 41829 37.1% Shashi Tharoor INC 34220 30.4% Bennet Abraham CPI 31799 28.2% 483 7609 133 Vattiyoorkavu O. Rajagopal BJP 43589 37.1% Shashi Tharoor INC 40663 34.6% Bennet Abraham CPI 27504 23.4% 716 2926 134 Thiruvananthapuram O. Rajagopal BJP 40835 36.0% Shashi Tharoor INC 39027 34.4% Bennet Abraham CPI 27385 24.1% 578 1808 135 Nemom O. Rajagopal BJP 50685 42.1% Shashi Tharoor INC 32639 27.1% Bennet Abraham CPI 31643 26.3% 523 18046 137 Parassala Shashi Tharoor INC 50360 34.8% Bennet Abraham CPI 47953 33.2% O. Rajagopal BJP 39753 27.5% 357 10607 139 Kovalam Shashi Tharoor INC 51401 37.7% Bennet Abraham CPI 42112 30.9% O. Rajagopal BJP 36169 26.5% 347 15232 140 Neyyattinkara Shashi Tharoor INC 48009 39.3% Bennet Abraham CPI 39806 32.6% O. Rajagopal BJP 28958 23.7% 336 19051
General Election 2009
By-Election 2005
General Election 2004
General Election 1999
General Election 1998
General Election 1996
General Election 1991
General Election 1989
General Election 1984
General Election 1980
General Election 1977
General Election 1971
General Election 1967
See also Indian general election, 2014 (Kerala) 2014 Indian general election
References
External links Election Commission of India: https://web.archive.org/web/20081218010942/http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha Elections Asianet News survey results 2019