Varkala (State Assembly constituency)
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Template:Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency Varkala State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies at the state Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Attingal Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is V. Joy of CPI(M).
Local self governed segments[edit]
Varkala Niyamasabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:[2]
Sl no. | Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Varkala | Municipality | Varkala |
2 | Chemmaruthy | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
3 | Edava | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
4 | Elakamon | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
5 | Madavoor | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
6 | Navaikulam | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
7 | Pallickal | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
8 | Vettoor | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
Members of Legislative Assembly[edit]
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1957 | 1st | T. Abdul Majeed | CPI | 1957 – 1960 | |
K. Sivadasan | |||||
1960 | 2nd | Balakrishnan | 1960 – 1965 | ||
Shamsuddin | INC | ||||
1967 | 3rd | T. Abdul Majeed | CPI | 1967 – 1970 | |
1970 | 4th | 1970 – 1977 | |||
1977 | 5th | Varkala Radhakrishnan | CPI(M) | 1977 – 1980 | |
1980 | 6th | 1980 – 1982 | |||
1982 | 7th | 1982 – 1987 | |||
1987 | 8th | 1987 – 1991 | |||
1991 | 9th | 1991 – 1996 | |||
1996 | 10th | A. Ali Hassan | 1996 – 2001 | ||
2001 | 11th | Varkala Kahar | INC | 2001 – 2006 | |
2006 | 12th | 2006 – 2011 | |||
2011 | 13th | 2011 – 2016 | |||
2016 | 14th | V. Joy | CPI(M) | 2016 - 2021 | |
2021 | 15th | Incumbent |
Election results[edit]
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
Niyamasabha Election 2016[edit]
There were 1,79,160 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.[3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI (M) | V. Joy | 53,102 | 41.43 | 1.25 | |
INC | Varkala Kahar | 50,716 | 39.57 | 12.83 | |
[[Bharath Dharma Jana Sena|Template:Bharath Dharma Jana Sena/meta/shortname]] | Aji S. R. M. | 19,872 | 15.50 | ||
BSP | Varkala P. Linees | 1,888 | 1.47 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 628 | 0.49 | ||
SDPI | Abdul Salam | 466 | 0.36 | 0.36 | |
Independent | Sunil Kumar S. | 357 | 0.28 | ||
Independent | Sudevan | 351 | 0.27 | ||
style="background-color: Template:Peoples Democratic Party (India)/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Peoples Democratic Party (India)|Template:Peoples Democratic Party (India)/meta/shortname]] | Nadayara Jabbar | 297 | 0.23 | |
Independent | Bhasidharan Nair | 138 | 0.11 | ||
Independent | Salu R. | 135 | 0.11 | ||
Independent | Varkala Sabesan | 126 | 0.10 | ||
Independent | Vivekanandan | 101 | 0.08 | ||
Margin of victory | 2,386 | 1.86 | |||
Turnout | 1,28,177 | 71.54 | 1.01 | ||
CPI (M) gain from INC | Swing |
Niyamasabha Election 2011[edit]
There were 1,51,930 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Varkala Kahar | 57,775 | 52.40 | ||
CPI (M) | A. A. Rahim | 47,045 | 42.68 | ||
BJP | Elakaman Satheesan | 3,430 | 3.11 | ||
Independent | Cherunniyoor Ganesh | 927 | 0.84 | ||
SDPI | Kunnil Shahjahan | 795 | 0.72 | ||
Independent | Aneesh Kumar | 275 | 0.25 | ||
Margin of victory | 10,710 | 9.72 | |||
Turnout | 1,10,227 | 72.55 | |||
INC hold | Swing |
See also[edit]
- Varkala
- Thiruvananthapuram district
- List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
- 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
References[edit]
- ↑ "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district". trivandrum.nic.in. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ↑ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
- ↑ "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.