Thrissur Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 Live Updates: With the counting of votes for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections underway, the results for one of the biggest elections in the world are finally being declared.
Over seven thousand candidates are in the electoral fray to gain the mandate of over 900 million eligible voters across 543 constituencies spread across 28 states and 9 union territories. The voting for these parliamentary elections were held in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June 2024. Now, it is time for the results.
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Live Updates of Thrissur Lok Sabha Election Results 2024
The polling for Thrissur was held in Phase 2 on 26 April.
The key candidates for the 2024 General Elections in Thrissur are Adv V S Sunilkumar (CPI), K Muraleedharan (Congress), and Suresh Gopi (BJP).
As per the latest trends of counting of votes for 2024 Lok Sabha elections, BJP' Suresh Gopi has won Thrissur seat.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Thrissur seat was won by Congress candidate T. N. Prathapan, while CPI candidate Rajaji Mathew Thomas had come in second place.
In 2014's General Elections, Thrissur constituency was won by CPI candidate C. N. Jayadevan and Congress candidate K. P. Dhanapalan was the runner-up.
Assembly seats that fall under Thrissur parliamentary constituency include Guruvayoor, Manalur, Ollur, Thrissur, Nattika, Irinjalakkuda, Puthukkad.
Thrissur is one of the Lok Sabha seats of Kerala.
Kerala Lok Sabha Elections 2024
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, all of Kerala’s 20 seats went to polls in phase two on 26 April. The state saw a voter turnout of just over 70% this election season.
Like all the seats in Kerala, Thrissur has also been fluctuating between CPI and Congress in the past Lok Sabha elections.
The primary contest on the 20 seats of Kerala is between the Congress-led UDF and CPI(M)-led LDF. The two parties, however, are part of the INDIA bloc, but contesting against each other in Kerala. As per the seat-sharing agreement between UDF parties, Congress is contesting on 16 seats, while RSP, KC, and IUML are contesting on 1, 1, and 2 seats, respectively. According to LDF's alliance in Kerala, CPI(M) is fielding candidates on 15 seats, CPI on 4 seats, and Kerala Congress (M) on the remaining 1 seat.
This time, CPI has fielded former Kerala minister and ex-MLA V.S. Sunil Kumar from Thrissur. Congress candidate K. Muraleedharan is the sitting MP from Vatakara.
BJP and its ally are also part of the race here. While BJP is competing on 17 seats, its ally BDJS is contesting on the remaining three seats. To break the CPI-Congress duopoly in Thrissur, BJP is capitalising on the stardom of veteran actor Suresh Gopi. While Gopi was unable to secure a victory in the 2019 polls, he significantly increased BJP’s vote share by 17 percent from 2014.
With 15 seats in its pocket, Congress swept the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Kerala. Two seats were won by its ally IUML. LDF's CPI(M). KC(M) and RSP could win just one seat each. In the previous Lok Sabha elections of 2014, Congress won eight seats, CPI(M) won five seats, IUML won two, while CPI, RSP, and Kerala Congress one seat each. Independent candidates won the remaining two seats.