Sulthan Bathery Assembly constituency

Sulthan Bathery സുൽത്താൻ ബത്തേരി
Indian electoral constituency
A backwater in the Sulthan Bathery (State Assembly constituency).
Constituency details
Country	India
District	Wayanad
Party	INC

Sulthan Bathery State assembly constituency (Malayalam: സുൽത്താൻ ബത്തേരി 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 Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is I. C. Balakrishnan of INC.

Results of Assembly Elections in the constituency

Year	Niyama Sabha	Category	Winning Candidate	Winning Party	Vote	Runner-up	Party	Vote	Majority
1977	5th	ST	K. Raghavan Master	INC	29204	Nidyachery Vasu	BLD	24213	4991
1980	6th	GEN	K. K. Ramachandran Master	INC(I)	36974	P. T. Jose	KEC	29580	7394
1982	7th				31858	P.V Varghese Vaidyar	CPI(M)	28623	3235
1987	8th			INC	39102	Cyriac John	ICS(SCS)	34976	4126
1991	9th	GEN	K C Rosakutty Teacher	INC	53050	P.V Varghese Vaidyar	CPM	50544	2006
1996	10th	GEN	P.V Varghese Vaidyar	CPI(M)	50316	K. C. Rosakutty	INC	49020	1296
2001	11th	GEN	N.D.Appachan	INC	68685	Fr. Mathai Nooranal	IND	45132	23553
2006	12th	GEN	P Krishna Prasad	CPI(M)	63092	N D Appachan	DIC	37552	25540
2011	13th	ST	I. C. Balakrishnan	INC	71509	E. A. Shankaran	CPI(M)	63926	7583
2016	14th				75747	Rugmini Subramanian	CPI(M)	65647	11198

List of MLAs from the constituency

Key

  INC   CPI(M)   INC(I)

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1977	5th	K Raghavan	INC	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"|	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	K K Ramachandran	INC(I)	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress (I)/meta/color" |	1980 – 1982
1982	7th			1982 – 1987
1987	8th		INC	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" |	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	K C Rosakutty Teacher	INC	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	P. V. Varghese Vaidyar	CPI(M)	style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color"|	1996 – 2001
2001	11th	N. D. Appachan	INC	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"|	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	P Krishna Prasad	CPI(M)	style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color"|	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	I. C. Balakrishnan	INC	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"|	2011 – 2016
2016	14th			Incumbent

Election results

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 2,18,241 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Sulthan Bathery

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	I. C. Balakrishnan	75,747	44.04	5.10
	CPI(M)	Rugmini Subrahmanian	64,549	37.53	6.40
	BJP	C. K. Janu	27,920	16.23	10.16
	NOTA	None of the above	1,261	0.73	-
	BSP	Mukundan Cheengeri	791	0.46	0.01
	CPI(M)	Madhavi	609	0.35	-
	SP	K. K. Vasu	478	0.28	-
	Independent	Balakrishnan Edakkal	387	0.22	-
	SUCI(C)	T. R. Sreedharan	262	0.15	-
Margin of victory			11,198	6.51	3.75
Turnout			1,72,004	78.81	5.56
	INC hold		Swing	5.10

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,98,645 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Sulthan Bathery

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	I. C. Balakrishnan	71,540	49.14
	CPI(M)	E. A. Sankaran	63,926	43.93
	BJP	Palliyara Raman	8,829	6.07
	BSP	Mukundan Cheengeri	679	0.47
Margin of victory			7,583	10.26
Turnout			1,45,512	73.25
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

See also

• Sulthan Bathery
• Wayanad district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election