Indian National Congress on Thiruvananthapuram

State 32 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 9 OF 11 contested

INC runner-up 2 times

Strike rate

81.8%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 11 published candidatures

Best vote share48.60%in 1989

Worst vote share30.40%in 2004

Average vote share40.65% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1984

Last contested2024

Votes polled here34.9 Lacross all 11 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Indian National Congress 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 — 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

11 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Shashi Tharoor	3,58,155	37.20%	1	Won
2019	Dr. Shashi Tharoor	4,16,131	41.20%	1	Won
2014	Dr. Shashi Tharoor	2,97,806	34.10%	1	Won
2009	Shashi Tharoor	3,26,725	44.20%	1	Won
2004	V S Sivakumar	2,31,454	30.40%	2	Lost · 2nd
1999	Advocate V.S. Sivakumar	2,88,390	38.10%	1	Won
1998	K. Karunakaran	3,37,429	44.00%	1	Won
1996	A.Charles	2,91,820	40.50%	2	Lost · 2nd
1991	A. Charles	3,34,272	46.30%	1	Won
1989	A. Charles	3,67,825	48.60%	1	Won
1984	A. Charles	2,39,791	42.60%	1	Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Communist Party Of India Indian National Congress (I)Independent Bharatiya Janta Party 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)