Kanjirappally Assembly constituency

Kanjirappally കാഞ്ഞിരപ്പള്ളി
Indian electoral constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
District	Kottayam
Party	KC(M)

Kanjirappally State assembly constituency (Malayalam: കാഞ്ഞിരപ്പള്ളി നിയമസഭാ നിയോജക മണ്ഡലം) is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies at the state Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2016 assembly elections,the current MLA is N. Jayaraj of KC(M).

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  CPI(M)  INC  Independent  KC(M)  KC(J)  Socialist  BLD  SSP

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	K. T. Thomas	INC	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" |	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd			1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	M. Kamal	CPI(M)	style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" |	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	K. V. Kurian	KEC	rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Kerala Congress/meta/color" |	1970 – 1977
1977	5th			1977 – 1980
1980	6th	Thomas Kallampally		1980 – 1982
1982	7th			1982 – 1987
1987	8th	K. J. Thomas	CPI(M)	style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" |	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	George J. Mathew	INC	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" |	1991 – 1996
1996	10th			1996 – 2001
2001	11th			2001 – 2006
2006	12th	Alphons Kannanthanam	IND	style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" |	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	N. Jayaraj	KC(M)	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Kerala Congress (Mani)/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 1,78,950 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kanjirappally

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(M)	N. Jayaraj	53,126	38.86	11.54
	CPI	V. B. Binu	49,236	36.02	3.59
	BJP	V. N. Manoj	31,411	22.98	15.88
	BSP	Arun M. John	1,113	0.81	2.08
	SDPI	Muhammed Siyad	839	0.61	−
	NOTA	None of the above	618	0.45	−
	Independent	Manoj Aruvikkuzhy	138	0.10	−
	Independent	Achuthan K. P.	137	0.10	−
	Independent	Sajan C. Madhavan	90	0.07	−
Margin of victory			3,890	2.84	7.95
Turnout			1,36,708	76.39	6.40
	KC(M) hold		Swing	11.54

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,61,648 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kanjirappally

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(M)	N. Jayaraj	57,021	50.40
	CPI	Suresh T. Nair	44,815	39.61	−
	BJP	Rajamohan	8,037	7.10
	BSP	P. K. Geetha Krishnan	3,268	2.89	0.59
Margin of victory			12,206	10.79
Turnout			1,13,141	69.99	2.68
	KC(M) gain from Independent		Swing

See also

• Kanjirappally
• Kottayam district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election