Tirunelveli (Lok Sabha constituency)

Tirunelveli Lok Sabha constituency (Tamil: திருநெல்வேலி மக்களவைத் தொகுதி) is one of the 39 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India.

Tirunelveli
Lok Sabha Constituency
Area of Tirunelveli Lok Sabha Constituency
IncumbentS. Gnanathiraviam
Parliamentary PartyDMK
Elected Year2019
Constituency Details
Established1952-present
ReservationGeneral
State Tamil Nadu,
 India
Total Electors15,47,800
Former MPK. R. P. Prabakaran
Most Successful PartyAIADMK (7 times)
Assembly Constituencies

Assembly segments

Tirunelveli Lok Sabha constituency was initially composed of the following assembly segments (before 2009 elections):

  1. Vilathikulam
  2. Ottapidaram
  3. Tirunelveli
  4. Palayamkottai
  5. Tiruvaikuntam
  6. Thoothukudi.[1]

From 2009 General Elections, the Tirunelveli Lok Sabha Constituency composed of following 6 assembly segments:

  1. Tirunelveli
  2. Palayamkottai
  3. Alangulam
  4. Ambasamudram
  5. Nanguneri
  6. Radhapuram

List of elected members
Year Winner Party Runner-up Party
1952 P. T. Thanu Pillai INC Adhimoolam Nadar IND
1957 P. T. Thanu Pillai INC Sankaranarayana Moopanar IND
1962 Muthiah INC Mariadhas Rathnaswamy SWA
1967 S. Xavier SWA A. P. C. Veerabahu INC
1971 S. A. Muruganantham CPI S. Palaniswaminathan SWA
1977 Aladi Aruna (alias) V Arunachalam AIADMK Samsuddin alias K. M. Kathiravan DMK
1980 D. S. A. Sivaprakasam DMK V. Arunachalam AIADMK
1984 M. R. Janardhanan AIADMK D. S. A. Sivaprakasam DMK
1989 M. R. Janardhanan AIADMK D. S. A. Sivaprakasam DMK
1991 M. R. Kadambur Janarthanan AIADMK K. P. Kandasamy DMK
1996 D. S. A. Sivaprakasam DMK A. R. Rajaselvam AIADMK
1998 M. R. Kadambur Janarthanan AIADMK R. Sarath Kumar DMK
1999 P. H. Pandian AIADMK P. Geetha Jeevan DMK
2004 R. Dhanuskodi Athithan INC R. Amirtha Ganesan AIADMK
2009 S. Ramasubbu INC K. Annamalai AIADMK
2014 K. R. P. Prabakaran AIADMK Devadasa Sundaram Dravida Munetra Kazhagam
2019 S. Gnanathiraviam[2] DMK P.H.P.MANOJ PANDIAN AIADMK

Election results

2019
2019 Indian general elections: Tirunelveli
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DMK S. Gnanathiraviam 5,22,623 50.30
AIADMK P. H. Paul Manoj Pandian 3,37,166 32.40
AMMK Michael Rayappan 62,209 5.98 New
NTK P. Sathya 49,898 4.8
MNM M. Vennimalai 23,100 2.22 New
NOTA None of the Above 10,958 1.05
Majority 1,85,457 17.83
Turnout 10,40,390 67.22
DMK gain from AIADMK Swing

2014
2014 Indian general elections: Tirunelveli
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AIADMK K. R. P. Prabakaran 3,98,139 41.37
DMK Devadasa Sundaram 2,72,040 28.26 +28.26
DMDK S Sivananentha Perumal 1,27,370 13.23
INC S. Ramasubbu 62,863 6.53
TNMK Dhevanathan Yadav T 19,381 2.01
Majority 1,26,099 13.10
Turnout 9,62,647 67.77
AIADMK gain from INC Swing

2009
2009 Indian general elections: Tirunelveli
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC S. Ramasubbu 2,74,932 39.23
AIADMK K. Annamalai 2,53,629 36.19
DMDK S. Michael Rayappan 94,562 13.49 +13.49
BJP Karu Nagarajan 39,997 5.70
IND N. Jeyabalan 6,079 0.87
Majority 21,303 3.04
Turnout 7,00,788 66.13
INC hold Swing

2004
2004 Indian general elections: Tirunelveli
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC R. Dhanuskodi Athithan 3,70,127 58.39 n/a
AIADMK R. Amirtha Ganesan 2,03,052 32.03 -8.88
JD(U) M. Appavu 39,333 6.21 n/a
Majority 1,67,075 26.36 +22.02
Turnout 6,33,846 58.35 +3.89
INC gain from AIADMK Swing +58.39

See also

References
  1. "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2006. Retrieved 13 October 2008.
  2. "General elections to the 17th Lok Sabha, 2019 - List of members elected" (PDF). New Delhi: Election Commission of India. 25 May 2019. p. 27. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

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