Punalur Assembly constituency
| Punalur പുനലൂർ | |
|---|---|
| Indian electoral constituency | |
 Punalur KSRTC Bus Station | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| District | Kollam |
| Party | CPI |
Punalur is a legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in Kollam district.[1] The current MLA is K. Raju of CPI
Structure
As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, the Punalur assembly constituency consist of the municipality of Punalur and 7 neighbouring panchayaths including Anchal, Ariyankavu, Edamulakkal, Eroor, Karavaloor, Kulathupuzha and Thenmala in Punalur Taluk.[2][3]
Electoral History
Punalur assembly constituency was carved out from Pathanapuram constituency in 1954.
Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly Elections
| Year | Winner | Party | Vote Margin | Coalition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | P. Gopalan | CPI | 3,417 | Left[4] |
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. Gopalan | CPI | rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color" | | 1957 – 1960 |
| 1960 | 2nd | K. Krishna Pillai | 1960 – 1965 | ||
| 1967 | 3rd | M. N. G. Nair | 1967 – 1970 | ||
| 1970 | 4th | K. Krishna Pillai | 1970 – 1977 | ||
| 1977 | 5th | P. K. Sreenivasan | 1977 – 1980 | ||
| 1980 | 6th | 1980 – 1982 | |||
| 1982 | 7th | M. Sam Oommen | KC(J) | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Kerala Congress (Jacob)/meta/color" | | 1982 – 1984 |
| 1984* | V. Surendran Pillai | 1984 –1987 | |||
| 1987 | 8th | J. Chitharanjan | CPI | style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color" | | 1987 – 1991 |
| 1991 | 9th | Punalur Madhu | INC | style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | | 1991 – 1996 |
| 1996 | 10th | P. K. Sreenivasan | CPI | rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color" | | 1996 |
| 1996* | P. S. Supal | 1996 – 2001 | |||
| 2001 | 11th | 2001 – 2006 | |||
| 2006 | 12th | K. Raju | 2006 – 2011 | ||
| 2011 | 13th | 2011 – 2016 | |||
| 2016 | 14th | Incumbent | |||
* indicates bypolls
Election results
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
Niyamasabha Election 2016
There were 2,04,628 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI | K. Raju | 82,136 | 56.85 |  2.33
| |
| IUML | A. Younus Kunju | 48,554 | 33.61 | ||
| KEC | Sisil Fernandes | 10,558 | 7.31 | ||
| SUCI(C) | K. Sasankan | 1,117 | 0.77 | 0.40
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 888 | 0.61 | ||
| Independent | Nettayam Suji | 639 | 0.44 | − | |
| SHS | Satheeshkumar B. | 415 | 0.29 | ||
| Independent | Navas M. | 164 | 0.11 | ||
| Margin of victory | 33,582 | 23.24 | 9.73
| ||
| Turnout | 1,44,471 | 70.60 | 0.47
| ||
| CPI hold | Swing | 2.33
|
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Niyamasabha Election 2011
There were 1,89,994 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI | K. Raju | 72,648 | 54.52 | ||
| INC | Johnson Abraham | 54,643 | 41.01 | ||
| BJP | B. Radhamani | 4,155 | 3.12 | ||
| Independent | S. Jayakumar | 699 | 0.52 | ||
| BSP | Kuzhichayil Sunil | 606 | 0.45 | ||
| SUCI(C) | S. Shailaja | 494 | 0.37 | − | |
| Margin of victory | 18,005 | 13.51 | |||
| Turnout | 1,33,245 | 70.13 | |||
| CPI hold | Swing | ||||
References
- ^ "CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- ^ "ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT - Kerala" (PDF). Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- ^ "Constituencies - Kollam District". Chief Electoral Officer - Kerala. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1954 to the Legislative Assembly of Travancore-Cochin" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 17 October 2018 suggested (help) - ^ "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.