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Payyanur
Payyanur
Constituency No. 6 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Kottathalachi Mount, Cherupuzha
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kannur
Established	1957 - present
Total electors	1,83,223 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent TI. Madhusoodanan
Party	CPI (M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Payyanur 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 Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is T. I. Madusoodhanan of CPI(M).

Local self governed segments

Payyanur Niyamasabha constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:^[2]

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Payyanur	Municipality	Payyanur
2	Cherupuzha	Grama panchayat	Payyanur
3	Eramam-Kuttur	Grama panchayat	Payyanur
4	Kankole-Alapadamba	Grama panchayat	Payyanur
5	Karivellur-Peralam	Grama panchayat	Payyanur
6	Peringome-Vayakkara	Grama panchayat	Payyanur
7	Ramanthali	Grama panchayat	Payyanur

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name		Tenure
1967	3rd	A.V. Kunjambu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	A.V. Kunjambu		1970 – 1977
1977	5th	N. Subrammaniya Shenoy		1977 – 1980
1980	6th	N. Subrammaniya Shenoy		1980 – 1982
1982	7th	M. V. Raghavan		1982 – 1987
1987	8th	C. P. Narayanan		1987 – 1991
1991	9th	C. P. Narayanan		1991 – 1996
1996	10th	Pinarayi Vijayan		1996 – 2001
2001	11th	P. K. Sreemathi		2001 – 2006
2006	12th	P. K. Sreemathi		2006 – 2011
2011	13th	C. Krishnan		2011 – 2016
2016	14th	C. Krishnan		2016-2021
2021	15th	T. I. Madusoodhanan		Incumbent

There were 1,80,460 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Payyanur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	T. I. Madhusoodanan	93,695	62.49	4.47
	INC	M Pradeep Kumar	43,915	29.29	0.66
	BJP	Adv K K Sreedharan	11,308	7.54	3.15
	NOTA	None of the above	686	0.46	0.27
	Independent	Abhilash KV	341	0.23
Margin of victory			49,780	33.2	5.13
Turnout			1,49,945	83.09	1.33
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	4.47

There were 1,75,438 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Payyanur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	C. Krishnan	83,226	58.02	1.73
	INC	Sajid Mavval	42,963	29.95	5.25
	BJP	Aniamma	15,341	10.69	6.85
	NOTA	None of the above	1,042	0.73	−
	CPI(M)	Vinod Kumar Ramanthali	870	0.61	−
Margin of victory			40,263	28.07	4.44
Turnout			1,43,442	81.76	2.43
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	1.73

There were 1,58,613 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Payyanur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	C. Krishnan	78,116	59.78
	INC	K. Brijesh Kumar	45,992	35.20
	BJP	C. K. Ramesan	5,019	3.84
	BSP	Geetha	625	0.48
	Independent	T. Padmanabhan	636	0.41
	SS	Kottayodi Vishwanathan	378	0.29
Margin of victory			32,124	23.98
Turnout			1,24,854	79.33
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Payyanur^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	K. P. Gopalan	32,360	67.66%
	INC	Vivekananda Devappa Sernoy	10,126	21.17%	21.17%
	Socialist	C. M. Kesavan	4,095	8.56%
	Independent	Uma Maheswaran	1,245	2.60%
Margin of victory			22,234	46.49%
Turnout			47,826	66.37%
Registered electors			72,055
	CPI win (new seat)