Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency

Coimbatore is a Lok Sabha constituency in western Tamil Nadu, India. Its Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Constituency number is 20 of 39. It is the Second largest city of Tamil Nadu and the district headquarters of the Coimbatore district. This Coimbatore Lok Saba Constituency having third largest Number of Voters after Sriperumbudur and Chennai South.

Coimbatore
Lok Sabha constituency
Coimbatore constituency, post-2008 delimitation
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
Assembly constituencies	Palladam Sulur Kavundampalayam Coimbatore North Coimbatore South Singanallur
Established	2009
Total electors	21,04,577 [1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Ganapathi P. Rajkumar
Party	DMK
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

From 2009

Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:

#	Name	District	Member	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	Party		Lead 2024
115	Palladam	Tiruppur	M. S. M. Anandan	None		AIADMK		DMK
116	Sulur	Coimbatore	V. P. Kandasamy			AIADMK		DMK
117	Kavundampalayam		P. R. G. Arunkumar			AIADMK		DMK
118	Coimbatore North		Amman K. Arjunan			AIADMK		DMK
120	Coimbatore South		Vanathi Srinivasan			BJP		DMK
121	Singanallur		K. R. Jayaram			AIADMK		DMK

Before delimitation in 2009, it consisted of the following constituencies:^[2]

1. Coimbatore West (defunct)
2. Coimbatore East (defunct)
3. Perur (defunct)
4. Singanallur
5. Palladam
6. Tiruppur (defunct)

Members of the Parliament

Year	Member[3]	Party
1952	T. A. Ramalingam Chettiar		Indian National Congress
1952^	N. M. Lingam
1957	Parvathi Krishnan		Communist Party of India
1962	P. R. Ramakrishnan		Indian National Congress
1967	K. Ramani		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1971	K. Baladhandayutham		Communist Party of India
1974^	Parvathi Krishnan
1977
1980	Era Mohan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1984	C. K. Kuppuswamy		Indian National Congress
1989
1991
1996	M. Ramanathan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1998	C. P. Radhakrishnan		Bharatiya Janata Party
1999
2004	K. Subbarayan		Communist Party of India
2009	P. R. Natarajan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2014	P. Nagarajan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2019	P. R. Natarajan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2024	Ganapathi P. Rajkumar		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

^ By Poll

Election results

Vote share of Winning candidates
2024			41.39%
2019			45.85%
2014			37.24%
2009			35.64%
2004			57.46%
1999			49.21%
1998			55.85%
1996			56.79%
1991			58.67%
1989			56.68%
1984			57.77%
1980			54.29%
1977			52.06%
1971			53.05%
1967			57.93%
1962			39.06%
1957			47.76%

General Elections 2024

2024 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Ganapathi P. Rajkumar	568,200	41.39	New
	BJP	K. Annamalai	450,132	32.79	1.32
	AIADMK	Singai G. Ramachandran	236,490	17.23	New
	NTK	Kalamani Jeganathan	82,657	6.02	1.16
	NOTA	None of the Above	11,788	0.86	1.00
Margin of victory			118,068	8.60	5.78
Turnout
	DMK gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General Elections 2019

2019 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. R. Natarajan	571,150	45.85	+42.90
	BJP	C. P. Radhakrishnan	392,007	31.47	−2.15
	MNM	R. Mahendran	145,104	11.65
	NTK	S. Kalyana Sundaram	60,519	4.86
	Independent	N. R. Appathurai	38,061	3.06
	NOTA	None of the above	23,190	1.86	0.36
Margin of victory			179,143	14.38	10.76
Turnout			1,245,644	63.86	−3.80
Registered electors			1,958,904		13.88
	CPI(M) gain from AIADMK		Swing	+8.60

General Elections 2014

2014 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	P. Nagarajan	431,717	37.24
	BJP	C. P. Radhakrishnan	3,89,701	33.62	+29.01
	DMK	K. Ganeshkumar	2,17,083	18.73
	INC	R. Prabhu	56,962	4.91	−26.03
	CPI(M)	P. R. Natarajan	34,197	2.95	−32.69
	NOTA	None of the above	17,428	1.50
	AAP	Pon. Chandran	6,680	0.58
Margin of victory			42,016	3.62	−1.08
Turnout			11,59,192	68.40	−3.29
Registered electors			17,20,221		+47.81
	AIADMK gain from CPI(M)		Swing	1.60

General Elections 2009

2009 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. R. Natarajan	293,165	35.64
	INC	R. Prabhu	2,54,501	30.94
	KNMK	E. R. Eswaran	1,28,070	15.57
	DMDK	R. Pandian	73,188	8.90
	BJP	G. K. S. Selvakumar	37,909	4.61	−34.13
Margin of victory			38,664	4.70	−14.02
Turnout			8,22,566	70.81	15.20
Registered electors			11,63,781		−26.54
	CPI(M) gain from CPI		Swing	-21.82

General Elections 2004

2004 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	K. Subbarayan	504,981	57.46
	BJP	C. P. Radhakrishnan	3,40,476	38.74	−10.47
	Independent	S. Vellingiri	11,562	1.32
	BSP	A. Noor Muhamad	4,484	0.51
	SS	Moogambikai Mani	4,437	0.50
Margin of victory			1,64,505	18.72	12.53
Turnout			8,78,866	55.51	−0.15
Registered electors			15,84,223		0.81
	CPI gain from BJP		Swing	8.25

General Elections 1999

1999 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	C. P. Radhakrishnan	430,068	49.21	43.91
	CPI	R. Nallakannu	3,75,991	43.02
	TMC(M)	S. R. Balasubramonian	45,205	5.17
	Independent	R. Lakshmana Narayanan	9,502	1.09
Margin of victory			54,077	6.19	−11.80
Turnout			8,74,020	55.63	−8.77
Registered electors			15,71,475		5.09
	BJP hold		Swing	-7.59

General Elections 1998

1998 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	C. P. Radhakrishnan	449,269	55.85
	DMK	K. R. Subbian	3,04,593	37.86
	INC	R. Krishnan	40,739	5.06
	BSP	S. T. Kalyanasundaram	4,596	0.57
Margin of victory			1,44,676	17.98	−14.19
Turnout			8,04,485	55.28	−9.12
Registered electors			14,95,356		13.53
	BJP gain from DMK		Swing	-0.95

General Elections 1996

1996 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	M. Ramanathan	463,807	56.79
	INC	C. K. Kuppuswamy	2,01,020	24.61	−34.05
	CPI(M)	P. R. Natarajan	85,355	10.45	−21.52
	BJP	K. S. Natarajan	43,289	5.30	−1.48
Margin of victory			2,62,787	32.18	5.48
Turnout			8,16,665	64.40	3.54
Registered electors			13,17,120		11.71
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	-1.88

General Elections 1991

1991 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	C. K. Kuppuswamy	408,891	58.67	1.99
	CPI(M)	K. Ramani	2,22,827	31.97	−6.10
	BJP	V. Narayanan	47,267	6.78	3.44
	IUML	A. Abeeb Rahman	3,381	0.49
Margin of victory			1,86,064	26.70	8.09
Turnout			6,96,942	60.86	−4.09
Registered electors			11,79,032		0.44
	INC hold		Swing	1.99

General Elections 1989

1989 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	C. K. Kuppuswamy	426,721	56.68	−1.10
	CPI(M)	R. Umanath	2,86,653	38.07	−3.04
	BJP	V. Narayanan	25,132	3.34
Margin of victory			1,40,068	18.60	1.94
Turnout			7,52,918	64.95	−6.37
Registered electors			11,73,906		30.03
	INC hold		Swing	-1.10

General Elections 1984

1984 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	C. A. Balakrishnan	355,525	57.77
	CPI(M)	R. Umanath	2,53,006	41.11
	Independent	J. Stephen	6,834	1.11
Margin of victory			1,02,519	16.66	5.66
Turnout			6,15,365	71.32	5.25
Registered electors			9,02,773		14.96
	INC gain from DMK		Swing	3.48

General Elections 1980

1980 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	R. Ram Mohan Alias Era Mohan	276,975	54.29
	CPI	Parvathi Krishnan	2,20,866	43.29
	INC(U)	K. Ramalingam	4,219	0.83
	Independent	B. Rajan Alias Rajagopal	3,166	0.62
Margin of victory			56,109	11.00	6.88
Turnout			5,10,166	66.06	−4.33
Registered electors			7,85,260		5.65
	DMK gain from CPI		Swing	2.23

General Elections 1977

1977 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Parvathi Krishnan	267,424	52.06
	INC(O)	K. C. Palanisamy	2,46,246	47.94
Margin of victory			21,178	4.12	−14.90
Turnout			5,13,670	70.39	2.91
Registered electors			7,43,258		17.68
	CPI hold		Swing	-0.98

General Elections 1971

1971 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	K. Baladhandayutham	214,824	53.05
	INC(O)	Ramaswamy	1,37,771	34.02
	CPI(M)	K. Ramani	52,388	12.94
Margin of victory			77,053	19.03	3.17
Turnout			4,04,983	67.48	−8.69
Registered electors			6,31,568		12.56
	CPI gain from CPI(M)		Swing	-4.88

General Elections 1967

1967 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Ramani	240,856	57.93
	INC	N. Mahalingam	1,74,935	42.07	3.01
Margin of victory			65,921	15.85	4.85
Turnout			4,15,791	76.18	−1.90
Registered electors			5,61,096		10.05
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing	18.87

General Elections 1962

1962 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	P. R. Ramakrishnan	151,019	39.06	−2.21
	CPI	Parvathi Krishnan	1,08,458	28.05
	SWA	K. Sundaram	74,932	19.38
	DMK	Somasundaram	41,724	10.79
	SLP	V. N. Arunachyalam	7,516	1.94
	Independent	S. Arumugham	2,977	0.77
Margin of victory			42,561	11.01	4.52
Turnout			3,86,626	78.08	28.06
Registered electors			5,09,869		10.29
	INC gain from CPI		Swing	-8.70

General Elections 1957

1957 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Parvathi Krishnan	110,454	47.76
	INC	P. S. Rangasami	95,442	41.27
	Independent	Palanisami	25,349	10.96
Margin of victory			15,012	6.49
Turnout			2,31,245	50.02	50.02
Registered electors			4,62,294		33.45
	CPI gain from INC		Swing

General Elections 1951

1951–52 Indian general election: Coimbatore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	T. A. Ramalingam	Unopposed
Margin of victory
Turnout			0	0.00
Registered electors			3,46,405		0.00
	INC win (new seat)

See also

• Coimbatore
• Coimbatore East Assembly constituency
• Coimbatore West Assembly constituency
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha