The Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency has an affinity towards outsiders, candidates from other districts or States, if its track record is any indication. Ever since the constituency came into being, native candidates have represented it in Parliament less than five times.
The Kozhikode constituency consisted of Balussery, Koduvally, Kozhikode-1, Kozhikode-2 and Thiruvambadi Assembly constituencies in Kozhikode district and Kalpetta and Sulthan Bathery constituencies in Wayanad district. But after the delimitation in 2009, Kalpetta and Sulthan Bathery became part of Wayanad constituency while Balussery, Kunnamangalam, Beypore, Koduvally, Elathur, Kozhikode North and Kozhikode South remained in the Kozhikode constituency.
K.A. Damodara Menon, who represented Kozhikode in the Parliament the very first time, from 1952 to 1957, was born in Ernakulam and lived most of his life in Thiruvananthapuram. It was his association with K.P. Kesava Menon and the Mathrubhumi publication that brought him to Kozhikode.
