Guruvayur Assembly constituency

Guruvayur ഗുരുവായൂർ
Indian electoral constituency
The Garuda Statue at Guruvayur in the Guruvayur (State Assembly constituency).
Constituency details
Country	India
District	Thrissur
Party	CPI(M)

Guruvayur State assembly constituency (Malayalam: ഗുരുവായൂർ 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 Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is K. V. Abdul Khader of CPI(M).

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  INC   CPI(M)   IUML   Independent

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	Koru Kooliyat	IND	style="background-color: Template:Independent/meta/color" |	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	K. G. Karnakara	INC	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" |	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	B. V. S. Thangal	IUML	style="background-color: Template:Indian Union Muslim League/meta/color" |	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	V. Vadakan	IND	style="background-color: Template:Independent/meta/color" |	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	B. V. S. Thangal	IUML	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Indian Union Muslim League/meta/color" |	1977 – 1980
1980	6th			1980 – 1982
1982	7th	P. K. K. Bava		rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Indian Union Muslim League/meta/color" |	1982 – 1987
1987	8th			1987 – 1991
1991	9th	P. M. Abubacker		1991 – 1996
1996	10th	P. T. Kunju Muhammed	IND	style="background-color: Template:Independent/meta/color" |	1996 – 2001
2001	11th	P. K. K. Bava	IUML	style="background-color: Template:Indian Union Muslim League/meta/color" |	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	K. V. Abdul Khader	CPI(M)	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" |	2006 – 2011
2011	13th			2011 – 2016
2016	14th			Incumbent

Election results

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,90,919 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Guruvayur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. V. Abdul Khader	66,088	44.76	3.77
	IUML	P. M. Sadiqali	50,990	34.53	6.22
	BJP	Nivedida	25,490	17.26	10.01
	SDPI	P. R. Siyad	1,406	0.95	0.75
	WPOI	K. G. Mohanan	1,382	0.94	-
	PDP	Muhammed Rasheed Arakkal	915	0.62	-
	NOTA	None of the Above	605	0.41	-
	SUCI(C)	C. V. Premraj	314	0.21	0.02
	Independent	Abdul Khader Kumbilavalappil	256	0.17	-
	Independent	Sasi Anjoor	204	0.14	-
Margin of victory			15,098	10.23
Turnout			1,47,350	73.17
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	3.77

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,74,161 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Guruvayur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. V. Abdul Khader	62,246	48.53
	IUML	P. M. Sadiqali	52,278	40.75
	BJP	Dayanandan Mampully	9,306	7.25
	SDPI	Ashraf Vadakoot	2,187	1.70	-
	Independent	Shameerbabu	1,017	0.94	-
	Independent	K. V. Abdul Khader	415	0.32
	Independent	Vijayanath	353	0.28
	SUCI(C)	C. V. Premraj	242	0.19
	BSP	Muhammed Ashraf	232	0.18
Margin of victory			9,968	7.78
Turnout			1,28,276	72.01
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

See also

• Guruvayur
• Thrissur district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election