Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency

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.

Thiruvananthapuram KL-20
Lok Sabha constituency
Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
Assembly constituencies	Kazhakootam Vattiyoorkavu Thiruvananthapuram Nemom Parassala Kovalam Neyyattinkara
Established	1957
Total electors	1,371,427 (2019)[1][needs update]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Shashi Tharoor
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

The incumbent MP of this constituency is Dr. Shashi Tharoor of the Indian National Congress, who has been elected consecutively on 4 occasions- 2009, 2014, 2019 and 2024. He is also the longest serving Member of Parliament representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency.

Demographics

As per the electoral roll for 2024 polls, the total electorate is of 14,03,281 people including 7,27,469 women, 6,75,771 men and 41 transgenders.^[2] 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. As per Census 2011 estimates the Thiruvananthapuram district has 66.46% Hindus, 19.10% Christians and 13.72% Muslims.^[3][4] The constituency also has highest proportion of Nadars and Converted Christians in Kerala.^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[7]

Assembly segments

Thiruvananthapuram Parliament constituency is composed of the following legislative assembly segments:^[8]

#	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 lead
132	Kazhakootam	Thiruvananthapuram	Kadakampally Surendran		CPI(M)		BJP
133	Vattiyoorkavu		V. K. Prasanth		CPI(M)		BJP
134	Thiruvananthapuram		Antony Raju		JKC		INC
135	Nemom		V. Sivankutty		CPI(M)		BJP
137	Parassala		C. K. Hareendran		CPI(M)		INC
139	Kovalam		M. Vincent		INC		INC
140	Neyyattinkara		K. Ansalan		CPI(M)		INC

Members of Parliament

Year	Member[9]	Party
1952	Annie Mascarene		Independent
1957	Easwara Iyer
1962	P. S. Nataraja Pillai
1967	P. Viswambharan		Samyukta Socialist Party
1971	V. K. Krishna Menon		Independent
1977	M. N. Govindan Nair		Communist Party of India
1980	Neelalohithadasan Nadar		Indian National Congress (I)
1984	A. Charles		Indian National Congress
1989
1991
1996	K. V. Surendranath		Communist Party of India
1998	K. Karunakaran		Indian National Congress
1999	V. S. Sivakumar
2004	P. K. Vasudevan Nair		Communist Party of India
2005^	Pannian Ravindran
2009	Shashi Tharoor		Indian National Congress
2014
2019
2024

^ indicates bypolls

Election results

Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.^[10]

Vote share of Winning candidates
2024			37.19%
2019			41.19%
2014			34.09%
2009			40.29%
2005			51.41%
2004			37.45%
1999			38.15%
1998			44.35%
1996			44.38%
1991			47.00%
1989			49.02%
1984			43.00%
1980			60.90%
1977			56.32%
1971			53.00%
1967			47.40%
1962			0%
1957			0%

General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dr. Shashi Tharoor	358,155	37.19	4.00
	BJP	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	3,42,078	35.52	4.22
	CPI	Pannyan Raveendran	2,47,648	25.72	0.12
	NOTA	None of the above	6,753	0.70	0.70
Majority			16,077	1.66	8.23
Turnout			9,64,351	67.22
Registered electors			14,30,531
	INC hold		Swing	4.0

Legislative Assembly Wise Results

No.	Assembly	1st Position	Party	Votes	%	2nd Position	Party	Votes	%	3rd Position	Party	Votes	%	Margin
132	Kazhakootam	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	BJP	50,444	40.56%	Shashi Tharoor	INC	39,602	31.84%	Pannyan Raveendran	CPI	34,382	26.81%	10,842
133	Vattiyoorkavu	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	BJP	53,025	42.02%	Shashi Tharoor	INC	44,863	35.52%	Pannyan Raveendran	CPI	28,336	22.45%	8,162
134	Thiruvananthapuram	Shashi Tharoor	INC	48,296	40.58%	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	BJP	43,755	36.78%	Pannyan Raveendran	CPI	27,076	22.71%	4,541
135	Nemom	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	BJP	61,227	45.80%	Shashi Tharoor	INC	39,101	29.26%	Pannyan Raveendran	CPI	33,322	24.94%	22,126
137	Parassala	Shashi Tharoor	INC	59,026	38.93%	Pannyan Raveendran	CPI	46,654	30.77%	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	BJP	45,957	30.30%	13,069
139	Kovalam	Shashi Tharoor	INC	64,042	42.54%	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	BJP	47,376	31.48%	Pannyan Raveendran	CPI	39,137	26.00%	16,666
140	Neyyattinkara	Shashi Tharoor	INC	58,749	45.09%	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	BJP	36,136	27.68%	Pannyan Raveendran	CPI	35,526	27.23%	22,613

General election 2019

There were 1,334,665 registered voters in Thiruvananthapuram Constituency for the 2019 Lok Sabha Election.^[6] The Constituency recorded a polling percentage of 73.45% of the total electorate.^[11]

Party wise Results

2019 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dr. Shashi Tharoor	416,131	41.19	7.10
	BJP	Kummanam Rajasekharan	316,142	31.30	1.02
	CPI	C. Divakaran	258,556	25.60	2.90
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,580	0.45	0.07
Margin of victory			99,989	9.89	8.12
Turnout			1,011,268	73.74	5.11
	INC hold		Swing	7.10

Legislative Assembly wise Results ^[12]

No.	Assembly	1st Position	Party	Votes	%	2nd Position	Party	Votes	%	3rd Position	Party	Votes	%	NOTA	Margin
132	Kazhakootam	Shashi Tharoor	INC	46964	35.50%	Kummanam Rajasekharan	BJP	45479	34.38%	C. Divakaran	CPI	37688	28.49%	648	1385
133	Vattiyoorkavu	Shashi Tharoor	INC	53545	39.46%	Kummanam Rajasekharan	BJP	50709	37.37%	C. Divakaran	CPI	29414	21.67%	690	2836
134	Thiruvananthapuram	Shashi Tharoor	INC	57077	43.98%	Kummanam Rajasekharan	BJP	42877	33.08%	C. Divakaran	CPI	27530	21.23%	647	14200
135	Nemom	Kummanam Rajasekharan	BJP	58513	41.40%	Shashi Tharoor	INC	46472	32.88%	C. Divakaran	CPI	33921	24.00%	748	12041
137	Parassala	Shashi Tharoor	INC	69944	42.57%	C. Divakaran	CPI	47942	29.18%	Kummanam Rajasekharan	BJP	42887	26.10%	621	27057
139	Kovalam	Shashi Tharoor	INC	73221	45.65%	C. Divakaran	CPI	42050	26.22%	Kummanam Rajasekharan	BJP	41092	25.62%	616	32129
140	Neyyattinkara	Shashi Tharoor	INC	66834	47.71%	C. Divakaran	CPI	37925	27.07%	Kummanam Rajasekharan	BJP	32368	23.11%	583	34466

General Election 2014

Party wise Results

2014 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dr. Shashi Tharoor	297,806	34.09	10.20
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	2,82,336	32.32	20.92
	CPI	Bennet Abraham	2,48,941	28.50	2.24
	AAP	Ajit Joy	14,153	1.62	N/A
	SDPI	Kunnil Shajahan	4,820	0.55	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,346	0.38	−−−
Margin of victory			15,470	1.77	11.78
Turnout			8,73,441	68.63	2.89
	INC hold		Swing	10.20

Legislative Assembly wise Results

No.	Assembly	1st Position	Party	Votes	%	2nd Position	Party	Votes	%	3rd Position	Party	Votes	%	NOTA	Margin
132	Kazhakoottam	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

2009 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Shashi Tharoor	326,725	44.29	2.65
	CPI	P. Ramachandran Nair	226,727	30.74	20.66
	BSP	A. Neelalohithadasan Nadar	86,233	11.69	N/A
	BJP	P. K. Krishna Das	84,094	11.40	6.57
	NCP	M. P. Gangadharan	2,972	0.40
Margin of victory			99,998	13.55	34.77
Turnout			737,641	65.74	2.81
	INC gain from CPI		Swing	45.26

By-Election 2005

By-Election, 2005: Thiruvananthapuram^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Pannyan Raveendran	490,324	51.41	13.96
	INC	V. S. Sivakumar	316,124	41.64	11.34
	BJP	C. K. Padmanabhan	36,690	4.83	25.03
Margin of victory			74,200	9.77	+35.89
Turnout			859,237	68.13	−0.66
	CPI hold		Swing	+36.45

General Election 2004

2004 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	P. K. Vasudevan Nair	386,057	37.45	1.22
	INC	V. S. Sivakumar	231,454	30.30	7.85
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	228,052	29.86	8.93
Margin of victory			54,603	7.15	5.24
Turnout			864,317	68.7	5.52
	CPI gain from INC		Swing	24.18%

General Election 1999

1999 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	V. S. Sivakumar	288,390	38.15	6.2
	CPI	Kaniyapuram Ramachandran	273,905	36.23	6.1
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	158,221	20.93	8.54
Margin of victory			14,485	1.91	0.1
Turnout			757,497	63.18%	2.56
	INC hold		Swing	-14.53%

General Election 1998

1998 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. Karunakaran	337,429	44.35%	2.92
	CPI	K.V. Surendranath	322,031	42.33	2.05
	BJP	Kerala Varma Raja	94,303	12.39	1.76
Margin of victory			15,398	2.01
Turnout			766,775	65.74
	INC gain from CPI		Swing

General Election 1996

1996 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	K.V. Surendranath	312,622	44.38
	INC	A. Charles	291,820	41.43
	BJP	K. Raman Pillai	74,904	10.63
Margin of victory			20,802	2.95
Turnout			721,087	64.56
	CPI gain from INC		Swing

General Election 1991

1991 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. Charles	334,272	46.99
	CPI	E. J. Vijayamma	290,602	40.85
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	80,566	11.33
Margin of victory			43,670	6.14
Turnout			721,412	68.89
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1989

1989 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. Charles	367,825	49.02
	CPI	O. N. V. Kurup	326,912	42.23
	BJP	P. Asok Kumar	56,046	7.47
Margin of victory			50,913	6.79
Turnout			754,853	73.78
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1984

1984 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. Charles	239,791	43.00
	LKD	Neelalohithadasan Nadar	186,353	33.41	−27%
	Hindu Munnani (KL)	Kerala Varma Raja	110,449	19.80
	Independent	Madhavikutty	1,786	0.32
Margin of victory			53,438	9.58
Turnout			561984	71.70
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1980

1980 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Neelalohithadasan Nadar	273,818	60.90
	CPI	M. N. Govindan Nair	166,761	37.09
Margin of victory			107,057	23.81
Turnout			453,458	63.44
	INC gain from CPI		Swing

General Election 1977

1977 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	M. N. Govindan Nair	244,277	56.32
	JP	P. Vishwambharan	174,455	40.22
Margin of victory			69,822	16.1
Turnout			448,586	72.14
	CPI gain from Independent		Swing

General Election 1971

1971 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram^[24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	V. K. Krishna Menon	167,872	52.99
	PSP	D. Damodaran Potti	143,745	45.38
Margin of victory			24,127	7.56
Turnout			318,883	59.76
	Independent gain from SSP		Swing

General Election 1967

1967 Indian general election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SSP	P. Viswambharan	153,040	47.4
	INC	G.C. Pillai	148,562	46.0
Margin of victory			4,478	1.4
Turnout			310,998	67.9
	SSP gain from Independent		Swing

See also

• Indian general election, 2014 (Kerala)
• 2014 Indian general election