In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

Situated in the Ernakulam district of the coastal state of Kerala is the parliamentary constituency of the same name. As one of the 20 Lok Sabha seats in this southern Indian state of Kerala, the Ernakulam parliamentary constituency has remained a stronghold of the Congress since the years of its formation. The Ernakulam Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 12) has a total of 1,023,053 electorates out of which 516,932 are females and 506,121 are males according to Election Commission of India 2009 reports. The city of Ernakulam is called the ‘commercial capital of Kerala’. The Ernakulam district houses the metropolitan region of Greater Kochin, which is the largest region in the state.

Known for its academic and educational excellence, the district of Ernakulam is renowned for being the ‘first literate district’ of India in the last decades of the 20th century. K.V. Thomas of the National Congress remains one of the most important leaders of this constituency, and represented this seat as MP for a number of elections. Seven assembly segments make up this Lok Sabha constituency of Ernakulam, none of which are reserved. It being a coastal district, fishing has remained one of the primary occupations. The bulk of the economic prosperity in this constituency is primarily due to the commercial stability of this financial hub of Kerala. Tourism sector has also flourished in this state substantially, thanks to the exquisite natural appeal of Kochi.

Ernakulam Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

Candidate	Party	Total Votes	% of Votes	Status
Hibi Eden	Indian National Congress	491263	50.79	Winner
P Rajeev	Communist Party Of India (Marxist)	322110	33.3	1st Runner-up
Alphons Kannanthanam	Bharatiya Janata Party	137749	14.24	2nd Runner-up
NOTA	None Of The Above	5378	0.56	3rd Runner-up
V M Faizal	Social Democratic Party Of India	4309	0.45	4th Runner-up
P A Niamathulla	Bahujan Samaj Party	1343	0.14	5th Runner-up
Abdul Khader Vazhakkala	Samajwadi Forward Bloc	932	0.1	6th Runner-up
Rajeev Nagan	Ambedkarite Party Of India	821	0.08	7th Runner-up
Laila Rasheed	Independent	797	0.08	8th Runner-up
Kumar	Independent	604	0.06	9th Runner-up
Sreedharan	Independent	554	0.06	10th Runner-up
Aswathi Rajappan	Independent	494	0.05	11th Runner-up
Shajahan Abdulkhadar	Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star	470	0.05	12th Runner-up
Adv Vivek K Vijayan	Rashtriya Samaj Paksha	379	0.04	13th Runner-up

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Ernakulam Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Ernakulam parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Ernakulam constituency is Prof. Kuruppassery Varkey Thomas of INC.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	winner/current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	12	Ernakulam	GEN	Prof. K.V. Thomas	M	INC	353841	Christy Fernandez	M	IND	266794
2009	12	Ernakulam	GEN	Thomas,Prof. Kuruppassery Varkey	M	INC	342845	Sindhu Joy	M	CPM	331055
2004	11	Ernakulam	GEN	Dr. Sebastian Paul	M	IND	323042	Dr Edward Edezhath	M	INC	252943
2003	Bye Pol	Ernakulam	GEN	Dr.Sebastian Paul	M	IND	335308	M.O.John	M	INC	313176
1999	11	Ernakulam	GEN	Adv. George Eden	M	INC	394058	Mani Vithayathil	M	IND	282753
1998	11	Ernakulam	GEN	Adv. George Eden	M	INC	389387	Dr. Sebastian Paul	M	IND	314879
1997	Bye Pol	Ernakulam	GEN	Adv. Sebastian Paul	M	IND	251865	Prof. Antony Isaac	M	INC	243172
1996	11	Ernakulam	GEN	Xavier Arrakkal	M	IND	335479	K.V.Thomas	M	INC	305094
1991	11	Ernakulam	GEN	K.V. Thomas	M	INC	362975	V. Viswanatha Menon	M	CPM	315831
1989	11	Ernakulam	GEN	K. V. Thomas	M	INC	385176	P. Subramnoian Poti	M	IND	348711
1984	11	Ernakulam	GEN	K. V. Thomas	M	INC	277374	A. A. Kochunny Master	M	ICS	207050
1980	11	Ernakulam	GEN	Xavier Varghese Arakal	M	INC(I)	189225	Henry Austin	M	INC(U)	186723
1977	11	Ernakulam	GEN	Henry Austin	M	INC	227896	K. N. Raveendranath	M	CPM	220611
1971	10	Ernakulam	GEN	Henry Austin	M	INC	190602	V. Viswanatha Menon	M	CPM	167932
1967	10	Ernakulam	GEN	V. V. Menon	M	CPM	176624	A. M. Thomas	M	INC	160018
1962	10	Ernakulam	GEN	A. M. Thomas	M	INC	181105	M. M. Abdul Khader	M	CPI	157706
1957	8	Ernakulam	GEN	Thomas ( Alungal )	M	INC	142202	Abdul Kadar	M	IND	131579

List of Assembly Constituencies in Ernakulam Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Ernakulam parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Kalamassery	Paravur	Vypen
Kochi	Thrippunithura	Ernakulam
Thrikkakara

Last Updated on July 04, 2019