Bharatiya Janta Party on Thiruvananthapuram

State 32 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 10 contested

BJP runner-up 3 times

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 10 published candidatures

Best vote share35.50%in 2024

Worst vote share7.40%in 1989

Average vote share20.26% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1989

Last contested2024

Votes polled here17.17 Lacross all 10 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Bharatiya Janta Party vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

10 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	3,42,078	35.50%	2	Lost · 2nd
2019	Kummanam Rajasekharan	3,16,142	31.30%	2	Lost · 2nd
2014	Sri. O Rajagopal	2,82,336	32.30%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	P K Krishna Das	84,094	11.40%	4	Lost · 4th
2004	O Rajagopal	2,28,052	29.90%	3	Lost · 3rd
1999	O. Rajagopal	1,58,221	20.90%	3	Lost · 3rd
1998	Kerala Varma Raja	94,303	12.30%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	K.Raman Pillai	74,904	10.40%	3	Lost · 3rd
1991	O. Rajagopalam	80,566	11.20%	3	Lost · 3rd
1989	P. Asok Kumar	56,046	7.40%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Communist Party Of India Indian National Congress Indian National Congress (I)Independent Bharatiya Lok Dal Lok Dal Bahujan Samaj Party Republican Party Of India Aam Aadmi Party Nationalist Congress Party Social Democratic Party Of India Jharkhand Party Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Ajeya Bharat Party All Kerala M.G.R. Dravida Munnetra Party Pravasi Nivasi Party All India Trinamool Congress Janata Pary (JP)Shiv Sena Bahujan Shakty Socialist Republican Party Republican Party Of India (A)