Kottarakkara (State Assembly constituency)

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{{Short description|Constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency
| constituency number = 119
| name =Kottarakkara
| existence = 1957–present
| image = File:Pulamon Junction in Kottarakara,.jpg
| caption = Pulamon Junction in Kottarakara town
| reserved = None
| current mla = [[K. N. Balagopal]]
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| front = {{legend2|{{Left Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color}}|'''[[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|LDF]]'''|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
| electedbyyear = [[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]
| district = [[Kollam district|Kollam]]
| electorate = 2,00,586 (2016)
| self governed segments =
}}
'''Kottarakara''' or '''Kottarakkara''' is a [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|legislative assembly]] constituency in [[Kollam district]] of [[Kerala]], [[India]]. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in [[Kollam district]]. As of the [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016 assembly elections]], the current MLA is K N Balagopal of CPI(M)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://keralaassembly.org/constitutencies.html |title=CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA |publisher=Kerala Assembly |access-date=2018-04-18}}</ref>

==Structure==
As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, the Kottarakara assembly constituency consist of the municipality of [[Kottarakkara]] and 7 neighbouring panchayaths including [[Ezhukone]], [[Kareepra]], [[Kulakkada]], [[Mylom]], [[Neduvathoor]]veliyam and [[Ummannoor]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://keralaassembly.org/election/Delimitation.pdf |title=ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT – Kerala |publisher=Kerala Assembly |access-date=2018-04-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/kollam.html |title=Constituencies – Kollam District |publisher=Chief Electoral Officer – Kerala |access-date=2018-04-18}}</ref>

* '''Municipalities:''' [[Kottarakara]]
* '''Panchayaths:''' [[Ezhukone]], [[Kareepra]], [[Kulakkada]], [[Mylom]], [[Neduvathoor]], [[Ummannoor]]veliyam
* '''Neighbourhood Towns:''' [[Thrikkannamangal]], [[Kunnicode]], [[Valakom, Kottarakara|Valakom]], [[Odanavattam]]

==Electoral history==
===[[Travancore-Cochin]] Legislative Assembly Elections===
{| width="70%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #000000 solid"
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"|Year
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"|Winner
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"|Party
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"|Vote Margin
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"|Coalition
|----
|1951
|Krishnan Nair
|Socialist
|3,526
|NA<ref>{{cite web |url=https://kerala.gov.in/documents/10180/8f8553b5-bcb5-4792-9271-9b6de83ba20b |title=Election to the Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly-1951 and to the Madras Assembly Constituencies in the Malabar Area |page=37 |publisher=Government of Kerala |access-date=2018-10-17}}</ref>
|----
|1954
|B. B. Pandarathil
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]]
|6,586
|[[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|LDF]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1954/StatRep_TravCochin_1954.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1954 to the Legislative Assembly of Travancore-Cochin |page=37 |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=2018-10-17}}</ref>
|}

== Members of Legislative Assembly ==
The following list contains all members of [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|Kerala legislative assembly]] who have represented the constituency:

'''Key'''

{{Party index link|Communist Party of India}}{{Party index link|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}{{Party index link|Indian National Congress}}
{{Party index link|Kerala Congress}}{{Party index link|Praja Socialist Party}}{{Party index link|Kerala Congress (B)}}
{| class="sortable" width="50%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: x-big;"
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Election
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Niyama
Sabha
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Member
! colspan="2" style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Party
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Tenure
|-
|[[1957 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|1st
|[[E. Chandrasekharan Nair]]
|CPI
| style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}" |
|1957–1960
|-
|[[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1960]]
|2nd
|D. Damodaran Potti
|PSP
| style="background-color: {{Praja Socialist Party/meta/color}}" |
|1960–1965
|-
|[[1967 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
| rowspan="2" |3rd
|[[E. Chandrasekharan Nair]]
|CPI
| style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}" |
|1967–1970
|-
|1970*
|[[C. Achutha Menon]]
|CPI
| style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}" |
|1970
|-
|[[1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1970]]
|4th
|Kottara Gopalakrishnan
|INC
| style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|1970–1977
|-
|[[1977 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|5th
| rowspan="7" |[[R. Balakrishna Pillai]]
| rowspan="4" |KEC
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: {{Kerala Congress/meta/color}}" |
|1977–1980
|-
|[[1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
|6th
|1980–1982
|-
|[[1982 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|7th
|1982–1987
|-
|[[1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|8th
|1987–1991
|-
|[[1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|9th
|INC
|style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|1991–1996
|-
|[[1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|10th
| rowspan="2" |KC(B)
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{Kerala Congress (B)/meta/color}}" |
|1996–2001
|-
|[[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|11th
|2001–2006
|-
|[[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|12th
| rowspan="3" |[[P. Aisha Potty]]
| rowspan="4" |CPI(M)
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}" |
|2006–2011
|-
|[[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|13th
|2011–2016
|-
|[[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|14th
|2016-2021
|-
|[[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|15th
||[[K. N. Balagopal]]
|Incumbent
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> indicates bypolls

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

=== Niyamasabha Election 2021 ===
There were 2,00,587 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ceo.kerala.gov.in|url=http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/pdf/GE-2021/VoterTurnout2021.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{Election box begin|title=[[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Kottarakkara}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=K. N. Balagopal|votes=68,770|percentage=45.98|change={{decrease}}9.46|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=R. Resmi|votes=57,956|percentage=38.75|change={{increase}}11.64|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Vayakkal Soman|votes=21,223|percentage=14.19|change={{decrease}}1.80|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=574|percentage=0.38|change=|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Mathews K. Lukose|votes=136|percentage=0.09|change=-|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Lal Viswan|votes=103|percentage=0.07|change=}}
{{Election box margin of victory||votes=10,814|percentage=7.23|change={{decrease}}21.10}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,49,552|percentage=74.56|change={{decrease}}0.48}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|swing=-|}}{{Election box end}}

=== Niyamasabha Election 2016 ===
There were 2,00,586 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3767-kerala-general-legislative-election-2016|website=eci.gov.in}}</ref>
{{Election box begin|title=[[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Kottarakkara}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=P. Aisha Potty|votes=83,443|percentage=55.44|change={{increase}}1.55|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Savin Sathyan|votes=40,811|percentage=27.11|change={{decrease}}11.80|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Rajeshwary Rajendran|votes=24,062|percentage=15.99|change={{increase}}11.36|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=742|percentage=0.49|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Madhu B.|votes=491|percentage=0.33|change=-|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=R. Sukumaran|votes=386|percentage=0.26|change={{decrease}}0.40|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Shiv Sena|candidate=Veliyam Shaji|votes=325|percentage=0.22|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Hariprasad|votes=173|percentage=0.11|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Ajaykumar Thankappan|votes=80|percentage=0.05|change=}}{{Election box margin of victory||votes=42,632|percentage=28.33|change={{increase}}13.35}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,50,513|percentage=75.04|change={{increase}}0.72}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|swing={{increase}}1.55}}{{Election box end}}

=== Niyamasabha Election 2011 ===
There were 1,84,97 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3763-kerala-2011|access-date=11 March 2020|website=eci.gov.in}}</ref>

{{Election box begin|title=[[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Kottarakkara}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=P. Aisha Potty|votes=74,069|percentage=53.89|change=|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Kerala Congress (B)|candidate=N. M. Murali|votes=53,477|percentage=38.91|change=|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Vayakkal Madhu|votes=6,370|percentage=4.63|change=|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Dhaneshlal Panavely|votes=1,063|percentage=0.77|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=P. T. Prasanna Kumar|votes=911|percentage=0.66|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=S. Solomon|votes=773|percentage=0.56|change=-|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Prakash V.|votes=454|percentage=0.33|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Prakash R.|votes=320|percentage=0.23|change=}}

{{Election box margin of victory||votes=20,592|percentage=14.98|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,37,437|percentage=74.32|change=}}

{{Election box gain with party link|winner=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|loser=Kerala Congress (B)|swing=}}{{Election box end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Kerala Assembly Constituencies}}

[[Category:Government of Kollam]]
[[Category:Politics of Kollam district]]
[[Category:Assembly constituencies in Kollam district]]
[[Category:1957 establishments in Kerala]]
[[Category:Constituencies established in 1957]]

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