Ottapalam Assembly constituency

Ottapalam ഒറ്റപ്പാലം
Indian electoral constituency
The Ottapalam town in the Ottapalam (State Assembly constituency).
Constituency details
Country	India
District	Palakkad
Party	CPI(M)

Ottapalam State assembly constituency (Malayalam: ഒറ്റപ്പാലം നിയമസഭാ നിയോജക മണ്ഡലം) is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Palakkad Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is P. Unni of CPI(M).

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  CPI(M)   INC  IC(S)  NCP  Independent  CPI

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	Kunhunni Nayar	CPI	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color" |	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd			1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	P. P. Krishnan	CPI(M)	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" |	1967 – 1970
1970	4th			1970 – 1977
1977	5th	P. Balan	INC	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"|	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	V. C. Kabeer	INC(U)	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress (Urs)/meta/color"|	1980 – 1982
1982	7th		IND	style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	K. Sankaranarayanan	INC	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"|	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	V. C. Kabeer	ICS(SCS)	style="background-color: Template:Indian Congress (Socialist)/meta/color"|	1991 – 1996
1996	10th		IC(S)	style="background-color: Template:Indian Congress (Socialist)/meta/color"|	1996 – 2001
2001	11th		NCP	style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Congress Party/meta/color"|	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	M. Hamsa	CPI(M)	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" |	2006 – 2011
2011	13th			2011 – 2016
2016	14th	P. Unni		Incumbent

Election results

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

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,97,646 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Ottapalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. Unni	67,161	44.71	4.76
	INC	Shanimol Usman	51,073	34.00	5.43
	BJP	P. Venugopalan	27,605	18.38	11.05
	SDPI	A. A. Sulfikar	1,166	0.78	0.69
	NOTA	None of the above	1,012	0.67	-
	BSP	K. T. Padmini	811	0.54	0.18
	Independent	S. R. Prakash	805	0.54	-
	SHS	M. S. Suneesh	399	0.27	-
	Independent	Suresh Velayudhan	180	0.12	-
Margin of victory			16,088	10.71	0.67
Turnout			1,50,212	76.00	0.92
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	4.76

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,75,066 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Ottapalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	M. Hamza	65,023	49.47	-
	INC	V. K. Sreekandan	51,820	39.43
	BJP	P. Venugopalan	9,631	7.33
	SDPI	E. S. Kajahussain	1,933	1.47
	Independent	M. Hamza	1,097	0.83	-
	BSP	K. T. Padmini	947	0.72	-
	Independent	N. Hamza	604	0.46	0.31
	Independent	Aravindan Karimpuzha	379	0.29	-
Margin of victory			13,203	10.04
Turnout			1,31,434	75.08
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

See also

• Ottapalam
• Palakkad district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election