Kottayam Assembly constituency
| Kottayam കോട്ടയം | |
|---|---|
| Indian electoral constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| District | Kottayam |
| Party | INC |
Kottayam State assembly constituency (Malayalam: കോട്ടയം നിയമസഭാ നിയോജക മണ്ഡലം) 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 Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan of INC.
Members of Legislative Assembly
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
| Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | P. Bhaskaran Nair | CPI | style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color" | | 1957 – 1960 |
| 1960 | 2nd | M. P. Govindan Nair | INC | style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | | 1960 – 1965 |
| 1967 | 3rd | M. K. George | CPI(M) | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" | | 1967 – 1970 |
| 1970 | 4th | M. Thomas | 1970 – 1977 | ||
| 1977 | 5th | P. P. George | CPI | style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color" | | 1977 – 1980 |
| 1980 | 6th | K. M. Abraham | CPI(M) | style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" | | 1980 – 1982 |
| 1982 | 7th | N. Srinivasan | IND | style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | 1982 – 1987 |
| 1987 | 8th | T. K. Ramakrishnan | CPI(M) | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" | | 1987 – 1991 |
| 1991 | 9th | 1991 – 1996 | |||
| 1996 | 10th | 1996 – 2001 | |||
| 2001 | 11th | Mercy Ravi | INC | style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | | 2001 – 2006 |
| 2006 | 12th | V. N. Vasavan | CPI(M) | style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" | | 2006 – 2011 |
| 2011 | 13th | Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan | INC | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | | 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 1,64,097 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan | 73,894 | 57.46 |  10.62
| |
| CPI(M) | Reji Sakaria | 40,262 | 31.31 |  14.92
| |
| BJP | M. S. Karunakaran | 12,582 | 9.78 | 5.04
| |
| BSP | P. K. Geetha Krishnan | 651 | 0.51 | 1.00
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 483 | 0.38 | − | |
| SP | Roy Chemmanam | 403 | 0.31 | − | |
| SUCI(C) | Rejitha Jayaram | 182 | 0.14 | 0.10
| |
| Independent | John Joy | 88 | 0.07 | − | |
| Independent | Payas C. P. | 58 | 0.05 | − | |
| Margin of victory | 33,632 | 26.15 | 25.54
| ||
| Turnout | 1,28,603 | 78.37 | 0.85
| ||
| INC hold | Swing | 10.62
|
|||
Niyamasabha Election 2011
There were 1,48,225 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan | 53,825 | 46.84 | ||
| CPI(M) | V. N. Vasavan | 53,114 | 46.23 | − | |
| BJP | Narayanan Namboothiri | 5,449 | 4.74 | − | |
| BSP | V. S. Shajan | 1,737 | 1.51 | − | |
| Independent | Rajeev Abraham | 387 | 0.34 | − | |
| SUCI(C) | N. K. Biju | 276 | 0.24 | − | |
| Independent | George P. Elias | 113 | 0.10 | ||
| Margin of victory | 711 | 0.61 | |||
| Turnout | 1,14,901 | 77.52 | |||
| INC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | ||||
See also
- Kottayam
- Kottayam district
- List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
- 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
References
- ^ "State Assembly Constituencies in Kottayam district". kottayam.nic.in. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "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.
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