Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency
| Vattiyoorkavu വട്ടിയൂര്ക്കാവ് | |
|---|---|
| Indian electoral constituency | |
 A skyview of Vattiyoorkavu Junction in the Vattiyoorkavu (State Assembly constituency) | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| District | Thiruvananthapuram |
| Party | CPI(M) |
Vattiyoorkavu State assembly constituency (Malayalam: വട്ടിയൂര്ക്കാവ് നിയമസഭാ നിയോജക മണ്ഡലം) is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. [1] As of the 2019 assembly by-elections, the current MLA is V. K. Prasanth of CPI(M).
Local self governed segments
Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:[2]
| Sl no. | Name | Wards | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality/Municipal Corporation) | Taluk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thiruvananthapuram | 24 wards | Municipal Corporation | Thiruvananthapuram |
Members of Legislative Assembly
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency during the period of various assemblies:[3]
Key
| Election | Legislative Assembly | Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13th | K. Muraleedharan | INC | rowspan="2" width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"| | 2011 – 2016 |
| 2016 | 14th | 2016 – 2019 | |||
| 2019* | V. K. Prasanth | CPI(M) | rowspan="1" width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color"| | Incumbent | |
* Bypoll
Election results
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
Niyamasabha By-election 2019
Due to the election of the sitting MLA K. Muraleedharan as the MP from Vatakara (Lok Sabha constituency), Vattiyoorkavu Constituency went to bypoll in 2019. There were 1,97,570 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for this election.[4] V. K. Prashanth won by 14,465 votes in the subsequent election conducted in October 2019.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | V. K. Prasanth | 54,830 | 44.25% |  14.46
| |
| INC | K. Mohankumar | 40,365 | 32.58% |  5.23
| |
| BJP | S. Suresh | 27,453 | 22.16% | 10.03
| |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 820 | 0.66% | 0.06
| |
| Independent | A.Mohanakumar | 135 | 0.11% | N/A | |
| Independent | Nagaraj G. | 100 | 0.08% | N/A | |
| Independent | Suresh S. S. | 93 | 0.08% | N/A | |
| Independent | Murukan A. | 76 | 0.06% | N/A | |
| Independent | Mithran G. | 38 | 0.03% | N/A | |
| Majority | 14,465 | 11.67% | 6.06
| ||
| Turnout | 1,23,910 | 62.66% | 7.17
| ||
| CPI(M) gain from INC | Swing | 14.46
|
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Niyamasabha Election 2016
There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for the 2016 Kerala legislative assembly Election.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | K. Muraleedharan | 51,322 | 37.81 | 12.38
| |
| BJP | Kummanam Rajasekharan | 43,700 | 32.19 | 20.21
| |
| CPI(M) | T. N. Seema | 40,441 | 29.79 | 6.05
| |
| BSP | Mekkansi K. John | 399 | 0.29 | N/A | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 816 | 0.60 | N/A | |
| Independent | Binu D. | 147 | 0.11 | ||
| Independent | Sahadevan | 104 | 0.08 | ||
| Independent | K. G. Mohanan | 77 | 0.06 | ||
| Independent | Baby D. | 53 | 0.04 | ||
| Independent | Saju Ameerdas | 48 | 0.04 | ||
| Majority | 7,622 | 5.56 | 8.79
| ||
| Turnout | 1,37,108 | 70.23 | 6.01
| ||
| INC hold | Swing | 12.38
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Niyamasabha Election 2011
There were 1,75,398 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[7]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | K. Muraleedharan | 56,531 | 50.19 | ||
| Independent | Cheriyan Phillip | 40,364 | 35.84 | ||
| BJP | V. V. Rajesh | 13,494 | 11.98 | ||
| BSP | Kaithakodu Radhakrishnan | 915 | 0.81 | ||
| Independent | Cheriyan P. T. | 551 | 0.49 | ||
| Independent | Rajan K. | 488 | 0.08 | ||
| Independent | G. Balakrishnan Nair | 294 | 0.26 | ||
| Majority | 16,167 | 14.35 | |||
| Turnout | 1,12,637 | 64.22 | |||
| INC win (new seat) | |||||
See also
- Vattiyoorkavu
- Thiruvananthapuram district
- List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
- 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
- 2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections
References
- ^ "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala". trivandrum.nic.in.
- ^ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District".
- ^ "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Vattiyoorkavu".
- ^ "Vattiyoorkavu Niyamasabha Constituency goes to bypoll, www.thehindu.com". www.thehindu.com.
- ^ "'ശരിദൂരം'കടന്ന് പ്രശാന്ത്; ബിജെപിക്കും യുഡിഎഫിനും കനത്ത പ്രഹരം". ManoramaOnline (in Malayalam). Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
- ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.