2014 Indian general election in Kerala


The 2014 Indian general election polls in Kerala were held for the twenty Lok Sabha seats in the state on 10 April 2014. The total voter strength of Kerala for the election was 2,42,51,937 and 73.89% of voters exercised their right to do so. The results of the elections were declared on 16 May 2014.

Background

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government under the premiership of Manmohan Singh completed its second term in May 2014 and general election was conducted to form a government to head the largest democracy in the world. The United Democratic Front (UDF), aligned to the national coalition of the UPA, the incumbent ruling alliance in the state legislature after wresting power from the Left Democratic Front (LDF), in the state assembly election of 2011. The buildup to this election saw parties shifting allegiance from both the prominent coalitions.

Alliances and parties

As in the previous general elections in the recent history of the state, the key alliances that fought for representation of Lok Sabha seats in Kerala in the 2014 general election are the UDF which is the Kerala state legislative alliance aligned with the UPA at the national level and the LDF comprising primarily the CPI(M) and the CPI. The nationally relevant National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has not had any success in general elections in Kerala so far but set up their candidates in all constituencies of the state. A new force in the election is the Left United Front. The debutant Aam Aadmi Party fielded candidates in fifteen of the twenty seats.

United Democratic Front

The United Democratic Front alliance saw the addition of two parties since the previous general election of 2009 while parting ways with one party that did not have any representation in the state legislature. The Socialist Janata (Democratic) (SJ(D)) joined the UDF in August 2010 splitting away from its parent Janata Dal (S) while the left leaning RSP docked itself to the UDF in March 2014, after the announcement of the general election.
No.
PartyElection SymbolSeats contested
1.Indian National Congress15
2.Indian Union Muslim League2
3.Kerala Congress (M)1
4.Socialist Janata (Democratic)1
5.Revolutionary Socialist Party1

Left Democratic Front

No.
PartyElection SymbolSeats contested
1.Communist Party of India (Marxist)15
2.Communist Party of India4
3.Janata Dal (Secular)1

National Democratic Alliance

No.
PartyElection SymbolSeats contested
1.Bharatiya Janata Party18
2.Kerala Congress (Nationalist)1
3.Revolutionary Socialist Party of Kerala (Bolshevik)1

Left United Front

The Left United Front was launched in March 2014, by the Revolutionary Marxist Party, the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) and the Marxist Communist Party of India (United).

Results

Results

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Party-wise detailed results

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Constituency-wise detailed results

No.ConstituencyUDF candidatePartyVotes%LDF candidatePartyVotes%NDA candidatePartyVotes%Other candidateVotes%PartyWinning allianceMargin
1KasaragodT. SiddiqueINC3,78,04338.8%P. KarunakaranCPI3,84,96439.5%K. SurendranBJP1,72,82617.7%Abdul Salam N. U.9,7131.0%SDPILeft Democratic Front6,921
2KannurK. SudhakaranINC4,21,05644.5%P. K. SreemathyCPI4,27,62245.1%P C. MohananBJP51,6365.5%K. K. Abdul Jabbar19,1702.0%SDPILeft Democratic Front6,566
3VatakaraMullappally RamachandranINC4,16,47943.4%A. N. ShamseerCPI4,13,17343.1%V. K. SajeevanBJP76,3138.0%P. Kumarankutty17,2291.8%INDUnited Democratic Front 3,306
4WayanadM. I. ShanavasINC3,77,03541.2%Sathyan MokeriCPI3,56,16538.9%P. R. RasmilnathBJP80,7528.8%P. V. Anvar37,1234.1%NCPUnited Democratic Front 20,870
5KozhikodeM. K. RaghavanINC3,97,61542.2%A. VijayaraghavanCPI3,80,73240.4%C. K. PadmanabhanBJP1,15,76012.3%K. P. Ratheesh13,9341.5%AAPUnited Democratic Front 16,883
6MalappuramE. AhammedIUML4,37,72351.3%P. K. SainabaCPI2,42,98428.5%N. SreeprakashBJP64,7057.6%Nasarudheen47,8535.6%SDPIUnited Democratic Front 1,94,739
7PonnaniE. T. Muhammed BasheerIUML3,78,50343.4%V. AbdurahimanIND3,53,09340.5%NarayananBJP75,2128.6%V. T. Ikramul Haque26,6403.1%SDPIUnited Democratic Front 25,410
8PalakkadM. P. VeerendrakumarSJ3,07,59733.8%M. B. RajeshCPI4,12,89745.4%Sobha SurendranBJP1,36,58715.0%E. S. Khaja Hussain12,5041.4%SDPILeft Democratic Front1,05,300
9AlathurSheebaINC3,74,49640.4%P. K. BijuCPI4,11,80844.4%Shajumon VattekkattuBJP87,8039.5%Krishnan Eranhikkal7,8200.8%SDPILeft Democratic Front37,312
10ThrissurK. P. DhanapalanINC3,50,98238.1%C. N. JayadevanCPI3,89,20942.3%K. P. SreesanBJP1,02,68111.2%Sarah Joseph44,6384.8%AAPLeft Democratic Front38,227
11ChalakudyP. C. ChackoINC3,44,55639.0%InnocentIND3,58,44040.5%B. GopalakrishnanBJP92,84810.5%K. M. Noordeen35,1894.0%AAPLeft Democratic Front13,884
12ErnakulamK. V. ThomasINC3,53,84141.6%Christy FernandezIND2,66,79431.4%A. N. RadhakrishnanBJP99,00311.6%Anitha Pratap51,5176.1%AAPUnited Democratic Front 87,047
13IdukkiDean KuriakoseINC3,31,47740.4%Joice GeorgeIND3,82,01946.6%Sabu VargheseBJP50,4386.2%Silvi Sunil11,2151.4%AAPLeft Democratic Front50,542
14KottayamJose K ManiKC(M)4,24,19451.0%Mathew T. ThomasJD3,03,59536.5%Noble MathewKC44,3575.3%Anil Aikkara26,3813.2%AAPUnited Democratic Front 1,20,599
15AlappuzhaK. C. VenugopalINC4,62,52546.4%C B ChandrababuCPI4,43,11844.4%A. V. ThamarakshanRSP43,0514.3%Thulaseedharan Pallickal10,9931.1%SDPIUnited Democratic Front 19,407
16MavelikkaraKodikkunnil SureshINC4,02,43245.3%Chengara SurendranCPI3,69,69541.6%P. SudheerBJP79,7439.0%Jyothish Perumpulickal8,9461.0%SDPIUnited Democratic Front 32,737
17PathanamthittaAnto Antony PunnathaniyilINC3,58,84241.3%Peelipose ThomasIND3,02,65134.8%M. T. RameshBJP1,38,95417.4%Peelipose16,4931.9%INDUnited Democratic Front 56,191
18KollamN.K. PremachandranRSP4,08,52846.5%M. A. BabyCPI3,70,87942.2%P. M. VelayudhanBJP58,6716.7%A. K. Salahudeen12,8121.5%SDPIUnited Democratic Front 37,649
19AttingalBindu KrishnaINC3,23,10037.6%A. SampathCPI3,92,47845.7%Girijakumari SBJP90,52811.2%M. K. Manoj Kumar11,2251.3%SDPILeft Democratic Front69,378
20ThiruvananthapuramShashi TharoorINC2,97,80634.1%Bennet AbrahamCPI2,48,94128.5%O. RajagopalBJP2,82,33634.0%Ajit Joy14,1531.6%AAPUnited Democratic Front 15,470

Assembly-Segment-wise detailed results by constituency

Based on the data from Chief Electoral Officer, Kerala