Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency

Thiruvananthapuram
Constituency No. 134 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionSouth India
StateKerala
DistrictThiruvananthapuram
Established2011 - present
Total electors2,00,281 (2021)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyJKC
Alliance  LDF
Elected year2021

Thiruvananthapuram State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is Adv. Antony Raju of JKC.

Thiruvananthapuram constituency came into existence in 2011. Before it was known as Trivandrum West Constituency from 1977 to 2011, and Trivandrum-I constituency from 1957 to 1977.

Local self governed segments

Thiruvananthapuram Niyamasabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:[2]

Sl no. Name Ward no. Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality/Municipal Corporation) Taluk
1 Thiruvananthapuram 26-30


40-47


59-60


69-75


77-78


80

Municipal Corporation Thiruvananthapuram

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Thiruvananthapuram Niyamasabha Constituency during the period of various assemblies:[3]

Key

  PSP   SSP   RSP   IUML   INC   KEC   CMP  JKC

As Trivandrum-I

Election Niyama
Sabha 		Member Party Tenure
1957 1st E. P. Eapen PSP 1957 – 1960
1960 2nd 1960 – 1965
1967 3rd B. M. Nair SSP 1967 – 1970
1970 4th N. Gopala Pillai PSP 1970 – 1977

As Trivandrum West

Election Niyama
Sabha 		Member Party Tenure
1977 5th K. Pankajakshan RSP 1977 – 1980
1980 6th P. A. Muhammad Kannu IUML 1980 – 1982
1982 7th 1982 – 1987
1987 8th M. M. Hassan INC 1987 – 1991
1991 9th 1991 – 1996
1996 10th Antony Raju KEC 1996 – 2001
2001 11th M. V. Raghavan CMP 2001 – 2006
2006 12th V. Surendran Pillai KEC 2006 – 2011

As Thiruvananthapuram

Election Niyama
Sabha 		Member Party Tenure
2011 13th V. S. Sivakumar INC 2011 – 2016
2016 14th 2016 - 2021
2021 15th Adv. Antony Raju JKC Incumbent

Election results

2021

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

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvananthapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JKC Antony Raju 48,748 38.01 Increase9.83
INC V. S. Sivakumar 41,669 32.49 Decrease4.33
BJP Krishnakumar 34,996 27.89 Increase0.35
NOTA None of the Above 1054 0.82 Decrease0.32
Majority 7,079 5.52
Turnout
JKC gain from INC Swing

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,93,101 registered voters in Thiruvananthapuram Constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvananthapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC V. S. Sivakumar 46,474 36.82% Decrease9.05
JKC Antony Raju 35,569 28.18%
BJP S. Sreesanth 34,764 27.54% Increase16.78
AIADMK Biju Ramesh 5,762 4.57%
NOTA None of the Above 1,435 1.14%
Independent Nandavanam Suseelan 450 0.36%
Independent Antony Raju New Colony 424 0.34%
BSP Mohanambika .D 398 0.32%
SUCI(C) P. S. Gopakumar 344 0.27% Increase0.05
Independent Sivakumar Raveendran Nair 208 0.16%
Independent Praveen Arimbrathodiyil 170 0.13%
Independent M. S. Subi 113 0.09%
Independent Sivakumar Pushkaran 101 0.08%
Majority 10,905 8.64% Increase3.64
Turnout 1,26,212 65.36% Increase5.01
INC hold Swing Decrease9.05

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,77,442 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvananthapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC V. S. Sivakumar 49,122 45.87%
KEC V. Surendran Pillai 43,770 40.87%
BJP B. K .Sekhar 11,519 10.76%
SDPI Abdu Razak A. 807 0.75%
Independent P. Surendran Pillai 518 0.48%
Independent S. Sivakumar 485 0.45%
SUCI(C) P. S. Gopakumar 235 0.22%
Independent N. Sivakumar 221 0.21%
Independent Sundaran Pillai 207 0.19%
Independent C. Vasantha Kumar 110 0.10%
Independent George Mankidan 98 0.09%
Majority 5,352 5.00%
Turnout 1,07,092 60.35%
INC win (new seat)

See also

References

  1. ^ "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala". trivandrum.nic.in.
  2. ^ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
  3. ^ "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Thiruvananthapuram". www.mapsofindia.com.
  4. ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
  5. ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.