Constituency
230. Thiruvananthapuram
Community mirrorKerala · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
INC 34.1%won by 1.8%BJP 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.6% to 1.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.4% between them, down from 75.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.9% to 68.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,72,748
Turnout
68.6%
Valid votes
8,73,441
Margin
15,470
1.77%
Candidates
21 contested · winner INC- 1DR. SHASHI THAROORIndian National Congress · INC2,97,80634.1%
- 2O RAJAGOPALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,82,33632.3%
- 3DOCTOR BENNET ABRAHAMCommunist Party of India · CPI2,48,94128.5%
- 4AJIT JOYAam Aadmi Party · AAP14,1531.6%
- 5KUNNIL SHAJAHANSDPI · SDPI4,8200.6%
- 6BENET BABU BENJAMINIndependent · IND4,2290.5%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,3460.4%
- 8J SUDHAKARANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,2600.4%
- 9O M JYOTHEENDRA NATHIndependent · IND2,4480.3%
- 10JAIN WILSONIndependent · IND2,1030.2%
- 11SYAMALAKUMARIIndependent · IND1,8510.2%
- 12KUNNUKUZHI S MANIIndependent · IND1,7160.2%
- 13M.SHAJAR KHANSUCI · SUCI1,6890.2%
- 14FATHER STEPHENIndependent · IND1,2710.1%
- 15ADV. PERURKADA HARIKUMARShiv Sena · SHS9020.1%
- 16GEORGE MANKIDIYILIndependent · IND8430.1%
- 17V S JAYAKUMARIndependent · IND4470.1%
- 18ANIL KUMAR YIndependent · IND3710.0%
- 19O V SREEDATHSRP · SRP3560.0%
- 20R CHANDRIKA KATTAKADARPI · RPI2920.0%
- 21THOMAS JOSEPHRPIA · RPIA2610.0%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −31.1%
- INC share
- 44.3% → 34.1%
- BJP share
- 11.4% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- 65.7% → 68.6%