Karunagappally Assembly constituency

Karunagappally
Constituency No. 116 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
The Karunagappally town in the Karunagappally (State Assembly constituency).
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionSouth India
StateKerala
DistrictKollam
LS constituencyAlappuzha
Established1957
Total electors2,13,993 (2021)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party INC
Alliance  UDF
Elected year2021

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

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.

2021

There were 2,13,993 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC C. R .Mahesh 94,225 54.38 Increase12.41
CPI R. Ramachandran 65,017 37.52 Decrease5.54
BJP Bitty Sudheer 12,144 7.01
NOTA None of the above 450 0.26
Margin of victory 29,208 16.68 Increase15.59
Turnout 1,73,284 80.97 Increase1.60
INC gain from CPI Swing

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 2,04,539 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI R. Ramachandran 69,902 43.06 Decrease7.07
INC C. R. Mahesh 68,143 41.97 Increase2.38
BDJS V. Sadasivan 19,115 11.77
SDPI A. K. Salahudeen 1,737 1.07 Decrease4.48
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 Decrease9.45
Turnout 1,62,351 79.37 Increase3.86
CPI hold Swing Decrease7.07

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,82,508 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally
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

  1. ^ "State Assembly Constituencies in Kollam district, Kerala". kollam.gov.in.
  2. ^ "ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT - Kerala" (PDF). Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
  4. ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.