Irinjalakuda Assembly constituency

Irinjalakuda ഇരിങ്ങാലക്കുട
Indian electoral constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
District	Thrissur
Party	CPI(M)

Irinjalakuda Assembly Constituency is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Kerala, Thrissur district. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is K. U. Arunan of CPI(M).

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  CPI   INC   CPI(M)   Independent  INC(U)  KC(M)

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	C. Achutha Menon	CPI	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color" |	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd			1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	C. K. Rajan		1967 – 1970
1970	4th	C. S. Gangadharan	KSP	style="background-color: Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party/meta/color" |	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	Siddarthan Kattungal	INC	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" |	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	Jose Thanickal	INC(U)	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress (U)/meta/color" |	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	Lonappan Nambadan	Independent	rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" |	1982 – 1987
1987	8th			1987 – 1991
1991	9th			1991 – 1996
1996	10th			1996 – 2001
2001	11th	Thomas Unniyadan	KC(M)	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Kerala Congress (Mani)/meta/color" |	2001 – 2006
2006	12th			2006 – 2011
2011	13th			2011 – 2016
2016	14th	K. U. Arunan	CPI(M)	style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" |	Incumbent

Election results

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,91,930 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Irinjalakuda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. U. Arunan	59,380	40.00	2.33
	KC(M)	Thomas Unniyadan	57,019	38.18	13.52
	BJP	Santhosh Cherkalam	30,420	20.37	20.37
	NOTA	None of the above	857	0.57	-
	BSP	V. C. Unnikrishnan	639	0.43	0.09
	Independent	Davis Chatheli	345	0.23	-
	CPI(M)	Ayyapan Manaykal	314	0.21
Margin of victory			2,711	1.82
	CPI(M) gain from KC(M)		Swing	2.33
Turnout			1,49,324	77.80	1.81

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,74,214 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Irinjalakuda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(M)	Thomas Unniyadan	68,445	51.70
	CPI(M)	K. R. Vijaya	56,041	42.33
	BJP	K. C. Venu	6,669	5.04
	Independent	T. V. Sivadasan	772	0.58
	BSP	Subramanian	449	0.34
Margin of victory			12,404	9.37
	KC(M) hold		Swing
Turnout			1,32,379	75.99