| P. R. Natarajan | |
| Birth Date: | 21 December 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Gobichettipalayam, Madras State, India |
| Residence: | Coimbatore |
| Office: | Leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha |
| Term Start: | 2019 |
| Term End: | 2024 |
| Predecessor: | P. Karunakaran |
| Successor: | TBD |
| Constituency1: | Coimbatore |
| Office1: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Term Start1: | 2019 |
| Term End1: | 2024 |
| Predecessor1: | P. Nagarajan |
| Successor1: | Ganapathi P. Rajkumar |
| Constituency2: | Coimbatore |
| Term Start2: | 2009 |
| Term End2: | 2014 |
| Predecessor2: | K. Subbarayan |
| Successor2: | P. Nagarajan |
| Party: | CPI(M) |
| Spouse: | R. Vanaja |
| Date: | 31 August |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Source: | https://web.archive.org/web/20190831103138/http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4543 |
| Education: | B.A. |
P. Ramaswamy Natarajan (born 21 December 1950) is a member of the 17th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Coimbatore constituency of Tamil Nadu and is a member of the CPI(M). He is the parliamentary group leader of CPIM in Loksabha.
P. R. Natarajan was born to P. V. Ramaswamy Iyer and Mangalambal at Gobichettipalayam[1] on 21 December 1950. He has completed his B.A. from Pachaiyappa's College, Madras University.[1] P. R. Natarajan is married to R. Vanaja. They got married on 5 April 1981.
He was elected to Lok Sabha from Coimbatore Lok Sabha Constituency, Tamil Nadu in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections after defeating C. P. Radhakrishnan of BJP by over 1.79 Lakh votes.[2] P. R. Natarajan has secured about 571,150 votes in this election.[3] P. R. Natarajan from Coimbatore along with S. Venkatesan from Madurai are the two Communist Party of India (Marxist) MPs from Tamil Nadu. P. R. Natarajan was also a member of the 15th Lok Sabha, when he defeated R. Prabhu of Indian National Congress in 2009, with a margin of over 35000 votes.[4]
He has contested a total of three times, and has won in 2009 and 2019.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Result | Vote % | Opposition Candidate | Opposition Party | Opposition vote % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coimbatore | 35.64 | R. Prabhu | 30.94 | ||||||
| Coimbatore | 2.95 | A.P. Nagarajan | 37.24 | ||||||
| Coimbatore | 45.85 | C. P. Radhakrishnan | 31.47 |