In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Shashi Tharoor clinched victory with an impressive tally of 4,14,057 votes, while the runner-up, Kummanam Rajasekharan of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), trailed behind by a significant margin of 1,00,132 votes. This victory marked Tharoor's third term as the representative of the constituency, following his initial election in 2009.

Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha Election Result

After trailing for a long time to BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar, incumbent MP Shashi Tharoor made a comeback and won in Thiruvananthapuram. Tharoor won by a margin of 16,000 votes.

In the previous 2014 elections, Tharoor emerged victorious with 2, 96,319 votes, securing a comfortable lead of 14,501 votes over his BJP counterpart, O Rajagopal.

Fast forward to 2024, the polling for the Thiruvananthapuram Parliamentary constituency was held on April 26.

Tharoor was pitted against BJP candidate and Union Minister, Rajeev Chandrasekhar. It is Chandrasekhar's first venture into the Lok Sabha polls after three terms as a Rajya Sabha member.

Tharoor, a seasoned politician, has previously held ministerial positions, including Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Congress-led government.