Ambalappuzha Assembly constituency

Ambalappuzha
Indian electoral constituency
Alappuzha Lighthouse near Purakkad
Constituency details
Country	India
District	Alappuzha
Party	CPI(M)

Ambalappuzha State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies at the state Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency. The current MLA is G. Sudhakaran of CPI(M).

Local self governed segments

Ambalappuzha Niyamasabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Parts of Alappuzha	Municipality	Ambalappuzha
2	Ambalapuzha North	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha
3	Ambalapuzha South	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha
4	Punnapra North	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha
5	Punnapra South	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha
6	Purakkad	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:

Key

  CPI(M)  INC  Independent  RSP

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1967	3rd	V. S. Achuthanandan	CPI(M)	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" |	1967 – 1970
1970	4th			1970 – 1977
1977	5th	K. K. Kumara Pillai	RSP	style="background-color: Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color" |	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	P. K. Chandrananandan	CPI(M)	style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" |	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	V. Dinakaran	Ind.	style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" |	1982 – 1987
1987	8th		INC	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" |	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	C. K. Sadasivan	CPI(M)	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" |	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	Susheela Gopalan		1996 – 2001
2001	11th	D. Sugathan	INC	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" |	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	G. Sudhakaran	CPI(M)	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" |	2006 – 2011
2011	13th			2011 – 2016
2016	14th			Incumbent

Election results

Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,68,949 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ambalapuzha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	G. Sudhakaran	63,069	47.32	7.16
	JD(U)	Shaik P. Harriz	40,448	30.34	−
	BJP	L. P. Jayachandran	22,730	17.05	14.77
	SDPI	K. S. Shan	1,622	1.22	0.36
	SUCI(C)	R. Arjunan	1,439	1.08	0.73
	Independent	Nassar M. Pygamadom	1,053	0.79	−
	PDP	A. Ansari	931	0.70	−
	WPOI	Nasar Arattupuzha	878	0.66	−
	NOTA	None of the above	627	0.47	−
	Independent	Joseph Kuttikadan	266	0.20
	Independent	P. G. Sugunan	231	0.17
Margin of victory			22,621	16.98	2.81
Turnout			1,33,294	78.90	0.73
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	7.16

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,46,890 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ambalapuzha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	G. Sudhakaran	63,728	54.48
	INC	M. Liju	47,148	40.31
	BJP	P. K. Vasudevan	2,668	2.28
	SDPI	S. H. Alhadhi	1,852	1.58	−
	BSP	Omanakuttan	672	0.57
	SUCI(C)	K. R. Sasi	415	0.35	−
	Independent	Sivakumar	347	0.30
	Independent	Nazeer Ahammed	136	0.12
Margin of victory			16,580	14.17
Turnout			1,16,966	79.63
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

See also

• Ambalappuzha
• Alappuzha district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

External links

• Ambalappuzha Assembly Election Results 2021