Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency

Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is a newly formed constituency in the Central Travancore region of Kerala for the election of a member of the Lok Sabha.

Pathanamthitta KL-17
Lok Sabha constituency
Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
Assembly constituencies	Kanjirappally Poonjar Thiruvalla Ranni Aranmula Konni Adoor
Established	2008
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Anto Antony
Party	INC
Elected year	2024

The district, which was previously fragmented into different parliamentary constituencies, was unified into a single Parliamentary constituency as per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly. Constituenciesc Order, 2008.^[1][2]

Assembly Segments

Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
100	Kanjirappally	Kottayam	N. Jayaraj		KC(M)		INC
101	Poonjar		Sebastian Kulathunkal		KC(M)		INC
111	Thiruvalla	Pathanamthitta	Mathew T. Thomas		JD(S)		INC
112	Ranni		Pramod Narayan		KC(M)		INC
113	Aranmula		Veena George		CPI(M)		INC
114	Konni		K. U. Jenish Kumar		CPI(M)		INC
115	Adoor (SC)		Chittayam Gopakumar		CPI		INC

Members of Parliament

Election	Lok Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
2009	15th	Anto Antony Punnathaniyil		Indian National Congress	2009-2014
2014	16th				2014-2019
2019	17th				2019-2024
2024	18th				2024-Incumbent

Election results

In the first election held in this district on 16 May 2009, United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate Anto Antony Punnathaniyil of the Indian National Congress was elected by 408,232 votes over K. Ananthagopan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) 297,026; B. Radhakrishna Menon of the Bharatiya Janata Party 56,294; K. K. Nair of the Bahujan Samaj Party 22,424; and Mani C. Kappan of the Nationalist Congress Party 4,445 votes.^[3]

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Pathanamthitta

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anto Antony	367,623	40.01	2.87
	CPI(M)	T. M. Thomas Isaac	3,01,504	32.79	0.01
	BJP	Anil K. Antony	2,34,406	25.49	3.48
Majority			66,119	7.30	2.99
Turnout			9,21,565	64.27	10.03
	INC hold		Swing

2019

According to Election Commission, there are 13,40,193 registered voters in Pathanamthitta Constituency for 2019 Lok Sabha Election. Pathanamthitta Constituency was polled 74.19% of total electorate.^[4]

2019 Indian general election: Pathanamthitta

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anto Antony	380,927	37.11	−4.08
	CPI(M)	Veena George	3,36,684	32.80	−2.00
	BJP	K. Surendran	2,97,396	28.97	+13.50
Margin of victory			44,243	4.31
Turnout			10,27,378	74.30
	INC hold		Swing

Indian general election, 2014

2014 Indian general election: Pathanamthitta

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anto Antony	358,842	41.19	−10.02
	Independent	Peelipose Thomas	302,651	34.74	−2.52
	BJP	M.T. Remesh[5]	138,954	15.95	+8.89
Margin of victory			56,191	6.46	−7.49
Turnout			8,69,452	66.01
	INC hold		Swing

Indian general election, 2009

2009 Indian general election: Pathanamthitta

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anto Antony	4,08,232	51.21	New
	CPI(M)	Adv. K. Anantha Gopan	2,97,026	37.26	New
	BJP	B. Radhakrishna Menon	56,294	7.06	New
Margin of victory			1,11,206	13.95	New
Turnout			7,97,154	65.6
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• 2014 Indian general election
• Indian general election, 2014 (Kerala)
• Kottayam District
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha
• Pathanamthitta district