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Nagercoil Lok Sabha constituency
Former constituency of the Indian parliament in Tamil Nadu From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nagercoil was a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu, India. K. Kamaraj. The first elected Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was elected twice to the Lok Sabha from here. It has been now named as Kanyakumari (Lok Sabha constituency).
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Kamarajar by-election victory
The death of A. Nesamony in 1968 led to the by-election in Nagercoil constituency. Realising the popularity of Kamaraj in this constituency and the potential danger posed by Kamaraj's election after the Indian National Congress party's debacle in 1967 election, C. Rajagopalachari wrote in Swarajya, the magazine of the Swatantra Party, about the need to defeat him and appealed to C. N. Annadurai to support M. Mathias, the Swatantra Party candidate. Annadurai deputed M. Karunanidhi, the then Minister for Public Works, to Nagercoil to work in support of Mathias. Despite the efforts, Kamaraj won decisively with a 1,28,201-vote margin on 8 January 1969.[1]
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Assembly segments
Nagercoil Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[2]
- Colachel (moved to Kanniyakumari Constituency)
- Killyur (moved to Kanniyakumari Constituency)
- Nagercoil (moved to Kanniyakumari Constituency)
- Padmanabhapuram (moved to Kanniyakumari Constituency)
- Thiruvattar (defunct)
- Vilavancode (moved to Kanniyakumari Constituency)
Members of the Parliament
- In 2008, the Nagercoil constituency was renamed Kanyakumari. For results post-2008, please see Kanyakumari (Lok Sabha constituency)
Election results
General Elections 2004
General Elections 1999
General Elections 1998
General Elections 1996
General Elections 1991
General Elections 1989
General Elections 1984
General Elections 1980
General Elections 1977
General Elections 1971
General Elections 1967
General Elections 1962
General Elections 1957
General Elections 1951
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