Kongad Assembly constituency
| Kongad കോങ്ങാട് | |
|---|---|
| Indian electoral constituency | |
 A school in the Kongad (State Assembly constituency). | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| District | Palakkad |
| Party | CPI(M) |
Kongad State assembly constituency (Malayalam: കോങ്ങാട് 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.[1] As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is K. V. Vijayadas of CPI(M).
Members of Legislative Assembly
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Kongad Niyamasabha Constituency during the period of various assemblies:[2]
Key
| Election | Niyama Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13th | K. V. Vijayadas | CPI(M) | rowspan="2" width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color"| | 2011 – 2016 |
| 2016 | 14th | Incumbent | |||
Election results
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
Niyamasabha Election 2016
There were 1,73,779 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | K. V. Vijayadas | 60,790 | 45.35 |  1.28
| |
| INC | Pandalam Sudhakaran | 47,519 | 35.45 |  8.04
| |
| BJP | Renu Suresh | 23,800 | 17.75 | 10.29
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,163 | 0.87 | ||
| BSP | Ramesh P. V. Kannampariyam | 789 | 0.59 | 0.47
| |
| Margin of victory | 13,271 | 9.90 | 6.76
| ||
| Turnout | 1,34,061 | 77.14 | 4.30
| ||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | 1.28
|
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Niyamasabha Election 2011
There were 1,55,799 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | K. V. Vijayadas | 52,920 | 46.49 | ||
| INC | P. Swaminathan | 49,355 | 43.49 | ||
| BJP | V. Devayani | 8,467 | 7.46 | ||
| Independent | Vijayadasan | 1,543 | 1.36 | − | |
| BSP | K. Velayudhan | 1,198 | 1.06 | ||
| Margin of victory | 3,565 | 3.14 | |||
| Turnout | 1,13,483 | 72.84 | |||
| CPI(M) win (new seat) | |||||
See also
- Kongad
- Palakkad district
- List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
- 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
References
- ^ "State Assembly constituencies in Palakkad district, Kerala". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
- ^ "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Kongad". www.mapsofindia.com.
- ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India".
- ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.