Vatakara General Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

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.

One of the 20 Lok Sabha seats in the southern Indian state of Kerala is Vatakara, which is also known as Badagara. This constituency in the state had as its most renowned political leader, the Congress MP K. P. Unnikrishnan. Unnikrishnan received the support of masses in Vatakara for two decades in a row, being elected as MP from 1971 to 1991.

The Vatakara Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 3) consists of 1,071,171 number of electorates in totality, of these 505,692 are males and 565,479 are females as the Election commission of India 2009 data suggests. This Lok Sabha constituency is situated in the Vatakara taluk, with the coastal municipality of Vatakara being the administrative headquarters of the taluk. Being a coastal region, the primary occupation of the land is fishing, which constitutes the bulk of the economy. Commercial and trading centres in the region dot this parliamentary constituency. A total of seven assembly segments comprise this parliamentary constituency of Vatakara. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been representing this seat for the last few Lok Sabha elections.

Vatakara Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

Candidate	Party	Total Votes	% of Votes	Status
K. Muraleedharan	Indian National Congress	526755	49.43	Winner
P.Jayarajan	Communist Party Of India (Marxist)	442092	41.49	1st Runner-up
Adv.V.K.Sajeevan	Bharatiya Janata Party	80128	7.52	2nd Runner-up
Musthafa Kommeri	Social Democratic Party Of India	5544	0.52	3rd Runner-up
NOTA	None Of The Above	3415	0.32	4th Runner-up
Jatheesh.A.P	National Labour Party	2833	0.27	5th Runner-up
Santhosh Kumar	Independent	1295	0.12	6th Runner-up
Muraleedharan.K Sandram	Independent	910	0.09	7th Runner-up
Jayarajan Pandaraparambil	Independent	690	0.06	8th Runner-up
C.O.T. Naseer	Independent	612	0.06	9th Runner-up
Muraleedharan.K Kuttiyil Veedu	Independent	597	0.06	10th Runner-up
Advocate K.Sudhakaran	Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star	507	0.05	11th Runner-up
Aluva Aneesh	Independent	241	0.02	12th Runner-up

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

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Vatakara 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 Vatakara constituency is Shri Ramachandran Mullappally of INC.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	winner/current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	3	Vatakara	GEN	Mullappally Ramachandran	M	INC	416479	Adv.A.N.Shamseer	M	CPM	413173
2009	3	Vatakara	GEN	Ramachandran Mullappally	M	INC	421255	Adv. P. Satheedevi	M	CPM	365069
2004	3	Badagara	GEN	P. Satheedevi	F	CPM	429294	M T Padma	M	INC	298705
1999	3	Badagara	GEN	A.K. Premajam	F	CPM	404355	P.M. Suresh Babu	M	INC	378511
1998	3	Badagara	GEN	A.K. Premajam	F	CPM	407876	P.M. Suresh Babu	M	INC	348715
1996	3	Badagara	GEN	O. Bharathan	M	CPM	415895	Unnikrishnan K.P	M	INC	335950
1991	3	Badagara	GEN	Unnikrishnan K.P. (Scs)	M	ICS(SCS)	395501	M. Ratnasingh	M	IND	378012
1989	3	Badagara	GEN	K. P. Unnikrishnan	M	ICS(SCS)	370434	A. Sujanapal	M	INC	362225
1984	3	Badagara	GEN	K. P. Unnikrishnan	M	ICS	270416	K. M. Radhakrishnan	M	IND	259437
1980	3	Badagara	GEN	K.P. Unnikrishnan	M	INC(U)	271796	Mullappally Ramachandran	M	INC(I)	230114
1977	3	Badagara	GEN	K. P. Unnikrishnan	M	INC	253462	Arangil Sreedharan	M	BLD	245392
1971	3	Badagara	GEN	K. P. Unnikrishnan	M	INC	198939	A. V. Raghavan	M	IND	141135
1967	3	Badagara	GEN	A. Sreedharan	M	SSP	215597	M. K. Prabhakaran	M	INC	115094
1962	3	Badagara	GEN	A. V. Raghavan	M	IND	204315	K. B. Menon	M	PSP	131408
1957	15	Badagara	GEN	Menon K. B.	M	PSP	111425	Gopalan Karipur	M	INC	92606