Karunagappally Assembly constituency
| Karunagappally | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 116 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
 The Karunagappally town in the Karunagappally (State Assembly constituency). | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | South India |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Kollam |
| LS constituency | Alappuzha |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 2,13,993 (2021) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | INC |
| Alliance | UDF |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Karunagappally State assembly constituency 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 Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is C. R. Mahesh of Indian National Congress.
Structure
[edit]Karunagappally assembly constituency was formed in 1951. As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, the assembly constituency consists of Karunagappally municipality and 6 panchayaths from Karunagappally Taluk including Alappad, Clappana, Kulasekharapuram, Oachira, Thazhava and Thodiyoor.[2]
Major institutions in the constituency
[edit]- Municipality: 1 Karunagappally
- Panchayaths: 6 (Alappad, Clappana, Kulasekharapuram, Oachira, Thazhava and Thodiyoor)
- Railway Stations: 2 (Karunagappalli, Oachira)
- Government Hospitals: 4 (Chest Disease Hospital(TB) in Karunagappally, Govt. Taluk Hospital in Karunagappally, Community Health Center in Mynagapally, Community Health Center in Ochira)
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit]The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
| Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Name | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | P. Kunjukrishnan | Indian National Congress | 1957 – 1960 | |
| 1960 | 2nd | Baby John | Independent | 1960 – 1965 | |
| 1967 | 3rd | 1967 – 1970 | |||
| 1970 | 4th | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1970 – 1977 | ||
| 1977 | 5th | B. M. Sheriff | Communist Party of India | 1977 – 1980 | |
| 1980 | 6th | 1980 – 1982 | |||
| 1982 | 7th | T. V. Vijayarajan | Independent | 1982 – 1987 | |
| 1987 | 8th | P. S. Sreenivasan | Communist Party of India | 1987 – 1991 | |
| 1991 | 9th | 1991 – 1996 | |||
| 1996 | 10th | E. Chandrasekharan Nair | 1996 – 2001 | ||
| 2001 | 11th | A. N. Rajan Babu | Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy | 2001 – 2006 | |
| 2006 | 12th | C. Divakaran | Communist Party of India | 2006 – 2011 | |
| 2011 | 13th | 2011 – 2016 | |||
| 2016 | 14th | R. Ramachandran | Communist Party of India | 2016 - 2021 | |
| 2021 | 15th | C. R. Mahesh | Indian National Congress | Incumbent | |
Election results
[edit]Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
2021
[edit]There were 2,13,993 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | C. R .Mahesh | 94,225 | 54.38 |  12.41
| |
| CPI | R. Ramachandran | 65,017 | 37.52 |  5.54
| |
| BJP | Bitty Sudheer | 12,144 | 7.01 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 450 | 0.26 | ||
| Margin of victory | 29,208 | 16.68 | 15.59
| ||
| Turnout | 1,73,284 | 80.97 | 1.60
| ||
| INC gain from CPI | Swing | ||||
Niyamasabha Election 2016
[edit]There were 2,04,539 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI | R. Ramachandran | 69,902 | 43.06 | 7.07
| |
| INC | C. R. Mahesh | 68,143 | 41.97 | 2.38
| |
| BDJS | V. Sadasivan | 19,115 | 11.77 | ||
| SDPI | A. K. Salahudeen | 1,737 | 1.07 | 4.48
| |
| PDP | Mylakkadu Shah | 1,620 | 1.00 | − | |
| BSP | Gopalakrishnan | 649 | 0.40 | ||
| Independent | Ramachandran | 594 | 0.37 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 590 | 0.36 | ||
| Margin of victory | 1,759 | 1.09 | 9.45
| ||
| Turnout | 1,62,351 | 79.37 | 3.86
| ||
| CPI hold | Swing | 7.07
|
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Niyamasabha Election 2011
[edit]There were 1,82,508 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI | C. Divakaran | 69,086 | 50.13 | ||
| JSS | A. N. Rajanbabu | 54,564 | 39.59 | ||
| SDPI | Nazarudeen Elamaram | 7,645 | 5.55 | ||
| BJP | Malumel Sumesh | 5,097 | 3.70 | ||
| Independent | P. D. Sudheer | 868 | 0.63 | − | |
| SUCI(C) | Twinkle Prabhakaran | 547 | 0.40 | ||
| Margin of victory | 14,522 | 10.54 | |||
| Turnout | 1,37,807 | 75.51 | |||
| CPI hold | Swing | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ "State Assembly Constituencies in Kollam district, Kerala". kollam.gov.in.
- ^ "ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT - Kerala" (PDF). Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
- ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.