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<div>{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}}<br />
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[[File:Wayanad-district-map-en.svg|400px|thumbnail|Map of Wayanad District]]<br />
'''Wayanad District''' has four types of administrative hierarchies: <br />
* Taluk and Village administration managed by the provincial government of Kerala<br />
* Panchayath Administration managed by the local bodies<br />
* Parliament Constituencies for the federal government of India<br />
* Assembly Constituencies for the provincial government of Kerala<br />
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==Administration of Wayanad==<br />
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District Headquarters: [[Kalpetta]]. District Collector, District Police Chief and District Judge are based at Kalpetta.<br />
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==Taluks of Wayanad==<br />
[[File:Subdistricts of Wayanad.png|thumb|Taluks in Wayanad district]]<br />
No. of [[Taluk]]s: 3 <br />
*[[Vythiri taluk|Vythiri]](Headquarters: [[Kalpetta]])<br />
*[[Sulthan Bathery]]<br />
*[[Mananthavady]]<br />
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==Assembly Seats==<br />
No. of state Assembly Legislators: 3<ref>{{cite web<br />
|url = http://archive.eci.gov.in/se2001/background/S11/KL_Dist_PC_AC.pdf<br />
|title = Assembly Constituencies – Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies<br />
|access-date = 18 October 2008<br />
|work = Kerala<br />
|publisher = Election Commission of India<br />
|url-status = dead<br />
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090304011026/http://archive.eci.gov.in/se2001/background/S11/KL_Dist_PC_AC.pdf<br />
|archive-date = 4 March 2009<br />
}}</ref> <br />
*Kalpetta - Current MLA is Mr. T SIDIQ<br />
*Sulthan Bathery - Current MLA is Mr. I.C. Balakrishnan<br />
*Mananthavady - Current MLA is Mr.O.R.Kelu<br />
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==Wayanad Parliament Constituency==<br />
'''Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency''' is one of twenty [[Lok Sabha]] (lower house of the [[Parliament of India]]) constituencies in [[Kerala]] state in southern [[India]]. Wayanad is a newly created constituency consisting of seven assembly constituency segments.<br />
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==Assembly segments==<br />
Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:<br />
*[[Mananthavadi]]<br />
*[[Kalpetta]]<br />
*[[Sulthan Bathery]]<br />
*[[Thiruvambady]]<br />
*[[Nilambur]]<br />
*[[Wandoor]]<br />
*[[Eranad]]<br />
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==Members of Parliament==<br />
*2009: [[M. I. Shanavas]], [[Indian National Congress]]. In the General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha, Shri M.I. Shanavas of INC won the Wayanad constituency. He defeated his nearest rival, Advocate M Rahmathulla of CPI by a margin of 153,439 votes. MI Shanavas secure 410,703 votes. M Rahmathulla secures 257,264 votes. K Muraleedharan of NCP secures 99,663 votes. MI Shanavas is a native of Neerettupuram, Alappuzha, and is KPCC general secretary. He entered politics through the Kerala Students Union and worked in the Youth Congress and Seva Dal. He was one of three leaders who rebelled against senior Congress leader K. Karunakaran and formed a third group. (The others were Ramesh Chennithala and G. Karthikeyan.) He contested unsuccessfully to Lok Sabha in 1999 and 2004. He also faced defeat in two assembly elections.<br />
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==Indian general election, 2014==<br />
{{Election box begin | title=[[2014 Indian general election]] : [[Wayanad]]}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Aam Aadmi Party<br />
|candidate = Adv. P P A Sageer<br />
|votes = 10,684<br />
|percentage = 1.16<br />
|change = <br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Nationalist Trinamool Congress<br />
|candidate = Satheesh Chandran<br />
|votes = 741<br />
|percentage = <br />
|change = <br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party<br />
|candidate = Vappan<br />
|votes = 1317<br />
|percentage = 0.14<br />
|change = <br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party<br />
|candidate = P R Rasmilnath<br />
|votes = 80,752<br />
|percentage = 8.83%<br />
|change = +4.98%<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Communist Party of India<br />
|candidate = Sathyan Mokeri<br />
|votes = 356,165 <br />
|percentage = 38.92%<br />
|change = +7.69%<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star<br />
|candidate = Sam P Mathew<br />
|votes = 1222<br />
|percentage = <br />
|change =<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Independent (politician)<br />
|candidate = P V Anwar<br />
|votes = 37,123<br />
|percentage = 4.06<br />
|change = <br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Indian National Congress<br />
|candidate = [[M I Shanavas]]<br />
|votes = 377,035<br />
|percentage = 41.21%<br />
|change = -8.65%<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Social Democratic Party of India<br />
|candidate = Jaleel Neelambra<br />
|votes = 14,327<br />
|percentage = 1.56<br />
|change = <br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Welfare Party of India<br />
|candidate = Ramla Mampad<br />
|votes = 12,645<br />
|percentage = 1.38<br />
|change = <br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = None of the above<br />
|candidate = {{Dash}}<br />
|votes = 10,735<br />
|percentage = 1.17%<br />
|change = {{Dash}}<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box margin of victory|<br />
|votes = 20,870 <br />
|percentage = 2.28%<br />
|change = -16.35%<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box turnout|<br />
|votes = 9,14,015<br />
|percentage = 73.28<br />
|change = <br />
}}<br />
{{Election box hold with party link|<br />
|winner = Indian National Congress<br />
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)<br />
|swing = <br />
}}<br />
{{Election box end}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Indian general election, 2014 (Kerala)]]<br />
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{{Lok Sabha constituencies of Kerala}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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