Coordinates : 11°41′N 92°46′E / 11.68°N 92.77°E / 11.68; 92.77 Andaman and Nicobar Islands(Pronunciation (help info Bengali : আন্দামান ও নিকোবর দ্বীপপুঞ্জ;) Lok Sabha constituency is the only Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) in the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands . Until the 1967 general election , the member of parliament (MP) representing this territory was unelected but directly appointed by the President of India.[ 2] 1st Lok Sabha in 1952.[ 3] Indian National Congress (INC): Lachman Singh in 1957[ 4] [ 5] Manoranjan Bhakta of the INC won the 1977 election and would go on to serve seven consecutive terms as MP from 1977 to 1999 before being defeated by Bishnu Pada Ray of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 1999 election. Bhakta was re-elected in 2004 to serve an eighth term as MP. Ray won the 2009 election, was re-elected in the most recent election in 2014 and currently serves as this constituency's MP.
Members of Parliament [ edit ] Election results [ edit ] General election 1967 [ edit ] General election 1971 [ edit ] General election 1977 [ edit ] General election 1980 [ edit ] General election 1984 [ edit ] General election 1989 [ edit ] General election 1991 [ edit ] General election 1996 [ edit ] General election 1998 [ edit ] General election 1999 [ edit ] General election 2004 [ edit ]
Indian general election, 2004 : Andaman and Nicobar Islands[ 16]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
INC Manoranjan Bhakta 85,794
55.77
+12.60
BJP Bishnu Pada Ray 55,294
35.95
-16.79
CPI(M) Tapan Kumar Bepari
4,175
2.71
N/A
NCP R. S. Uma Bharatthy
2,364
1.54
+0.85
CPI(ML) Liberation N. K. P. Nair
1,448
0.94
N/A
Independent Deepak Biswas
1,186
0.77
N/A
BSP A. K. Biswas
1,122
0.73
N/A
LNJSP Shanmugam
691
0.45
N/A
Independent Gour Chandra Majumder
543
0.35
N/A
Independent Asit Baran Dutta
523
0.34
N/A
Independent K. Kalimuthu
387
0.25
+0.16
Swaraj Dal
K. Perumal
298
0.19
N/A
Margin of victory 30,500
19.82
+10.25
Turnout 153,825
INC gain from BJP Swing
General election 2009 [ edit ]
Indian general election, 2009 : Andaman and Nicobar Islands[ 17]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
BJP Bishnu Pada Ray 75,211
44.21
+6.51
INC Kuldeep Rai Sharma
72,221
42.46
-13.31
CPI(M) Tapan Kumar Bepari
7,190
4.23
+1.52
RJD P. R. Ganeshan
4,916
2.89
N/A
NCP R. S. Uma Bharatthy
4,696
2.76
+1.22
JDP Pradeep Kumar Ekka
1,785
1.05
N/A
Independent V. V. Khalid
1,480
0.87
N/A
BSP M. S. Mohan
789
0.46
-0.27
CPI(ML) Liberation N. K. P. Nair
734
0.43
-0.51
Independent Thankachan
683
0.40
N/A
Independent T. Ali
398
0.23
N/A
Margin of victory 2,990
1.75
-18.07
Turnout 170,103
BJP gain from INC Swing
General election 2014 [ edit ]
Indian general elections, 2014 : Andaman and Nicobar Islands[ 1] [ 18]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
BJP Bishnu Pada Ray 90,969
47.80
+3.59
INC Kuldeep Rai Sharma
83,157
43.69
+1.23
AAP Sanjay Meschack
3,737
1.96
N/A
AITMC Anita Mondal
2,283
1.20
N/A
CPI(M) K. G. Das
1,777
0.93
-3.30
Independent Prakash Minj
1,587
0.83
N/A
NCP R. S. Uma Bharatthy
1,151
0.60
-2.16
BSP Gour Chandra Majumder
1,139
0.60
+0.14
Independent Saravanan
847
0.45
N/A
CPI(ML) Liberation N. K. P. Nair
436
0.23
-0.20
Independent V. V. Khalid
429
0.23
-0.64
SP Raghubir Singh
379
0.20
N/A
Independent C. G. Saji Kumar
334
0.18
N/A
Independent N. Kannan
314
0.16
N/A
Forward Bloc A. Pandian
225
0.12
N/A
None of the above
None of the Above
1,564
0.82
N/A
Margin of victory 7,812
4.11
+2.36
Turnout 190,328
70.66
+6.50
BJP hold Swing
See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
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Pronunciation (help·info)); (Bengali: আন্দামান ও নিকোবর দ্বীপপুঞ্জ;) Lok Sabha constituency is the only Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) in the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Until the 1967 general election, the member of parliament (MP) representing this territory was unelected but directly appointed by the President of India.[2] Its first MP was John Richardson who was nominated to represent this constituency in the 1st Lok Sabha in 1952.[3] The next two to be nominated were both from the Indian National Congress (INC): Lachman Singh in 1957[4] and Lall Niranjan in 1962.[5] The constituency's first elected MP was K. R. Ganesh of the INC in 1967. Ganesh was re-elected in the next election in 1971. Manoranjan Bhakta of the INC won the 1977 election and would go on to serve seven consecutive terms as MP from 1977 to 1999 before being defeated by Bishnu Pada Ray of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 1999 election. Bhakta was re-elected in 2004 to serve an eighth term as MP. Ray won the 2009 election, was re-elected in the most recent election in 2014 and currently serves as this constituency's MP.
