2. Kannur is a Lok Sabha / Parliamentary constituency in Malabar region of Kerala in South India. This semi-urban general constituency has an estimated Scheduled Caste population of 3.27% and a Scheduled Tribe population of 2.2%. The estimated literacy level of Kannur is 95.02%. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, there were a total of eligible electors and the voter turnout was calculated at %. The seat went to the polls on Phase 3 on Tuesday, April 23, 2019.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, P K Sreemathi Teacher of CPM won in this seat by defeating the INC candidate by a margin of 6,566 votes which was 0.69% of the total votes polled in the constituency. CPM had a vote share of 45.15% in 2014 in the seat. There were a total of 11 contestants in 2014.
In 2009, K Sudhakaran of INC emerged victorious in this seat by defeating the CPM candidate by a margin of 43,151 votes which was 4.99% of the total votes polled. INC had a vote share of 50.05% in 2019, in the constituency. There were 9 contestants in 2009.
The voter turnout in the 2014 Parliamentary polls in the seat was 81.17% and in 2009, the constituency registered 80.84% turnout during polling.
As of December 2018, the Member of Parliament from Kannur was: P K Sreemathi Teacher (CPM) . The 2019 Lok Sabha election results are scheduled for Thursday, May 23, 2019.
According to the 2014 electoral rolls, the electorate included 5,48,454 men, 6,21,812 women and 0 voters of the third gender.
Refer to the live updating results tables for the latest Kannur Lok Sabha results.
The geographic coordinates of Kannur is: 11.8762 75.3738
Constituency and state name in other Indian languages: कन्नूर, केरल (Hindi); কন্নুর, কেরল (Bengali); कन्नूर, केरळ (Marathi); કન્નુર, કેરલા (Gujarati); கண்ணூர், கேரளா (Tamil); కన్నూర్, కేరళ (Telugu); ಕಣ್ಣೂರು, ಕೇರಳ (Kannada); കണ്ണൂർ, കേരള (Malayalam).
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