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Elathur
Elathur
Constituency No. 26 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Korappuzha Bridge name board in the Elathur (State Assembly constituency)
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kozhikode
Established	2011 – present
Total electors	2,03,267 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent A. K. Saseendran
Party	NCP(SP)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Elathur 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 Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly election, the current MLA is A. K. Saseendran of Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar).

Local self governed segments

Elathur Niyama Sabha constituency is composed of the following 6 wards of the Kozhikode Municipal Corporation (Elathur) in Kozhikode Taluk, and 6 Gram Panchayats in the same Taluk:^[2]

**Wards of Kozhikode Municipal Corporation in Elathur Constituency**
Ward no.	Name	Ward no.	Name	Ward no.	Name
1	Elathur	2	Chettikulam	3	Eranjikkal
4	Puthur	5	Mokavur	75	Puthiyappa

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

Key

NCP-SP

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member		Tenure
2011	13th	A. K. Saseendran	NCP-SP	2011 – 2016
2016	14th			2016 - 2021
2021	15th			Incumbent

There were 2,03,267 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.^[3]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Elathur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP-SP	A. K. Saseendran	83,639	50.89	2.24
	DCK	Sulfikar Mayoori	45,137	27.46	−
	BJP	T. P. Jayachandran Master	32,010	19.48	0.96
	WPOI	Tahir Mokandi	2,000	0.73	−
	NOTA	None of the above	986	0.48	−
	Independent	P. K. Radhakrishnan	580	0.35	−
Margin of victory			38,502	23.43	4.93
Turnout			1,64,350	80.85	2.43
	NCP-SP hold		Swing	2.24

There were 1,88,528 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Elathur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	A. K. Saseendran	76,387	48.65	1.49
	JD(U)	Kishen Chand	47,450	30.15	−
	BJP	Rajan Nair	29,070	18.52	9.63
	Independent	Krishnan	1,724	1.10	−
	BSP	Raghu	1,142	0.73
	NOTA	None of the above	986	0.63	−
	Independent	Useffali P. M.	367	0.23	−
Margin of victory			29,057	18.50	7.56
Turnout			1,57,006	83.28	1.04
	NCP hold		Swing	1.49

There were 1,62,830 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Elathur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	A. K. Saseendran	67,143	50.14	−
	SJ(D)	Shaikh P. Harriz	52,489	39.20	−
	BJP	V. V. Rajan	11,901	8.89	−
	Independent	A. Sasindran	1,402	1.05	−
	BSP	Ramesh Nanmanda	971	0.73	−
Margin of victory			14,654	10.94
Turnout			1,57,006	82.24
	NCP win (new seat)