Vattiyoorkavu (State Assembly constituency)

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{{Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency
| constituency number= 133
| name = Vattiyoorkavu
| image = Palace of Trivandrum.jpg
| caption = [[Kowdiar Palace]] at [[Kowdiar]] ward of [[Thiruvananthapuram Corporation]] in '''Vattiyoorkavu Constituency'''
| existence = 2011 - present
| reserved = None
| current mla = [[V. K. Prasanth]]
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| front = {{legend2|#ED1C24|'''[[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|LDF]]'''|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
| electedbyyear = [[2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections|2019]]
| district = [[Thiruvananthapuram district|Thiruvananthapuram]]
| electorate = 2,08,118 (2021)
| self governed segments= 24 wards in the [[Thiruvananthapuram Corporation]].
}}
'''Vattiyoorkavu State assembly constituency''' is one of the 140 [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|state legislative assembly]] constituencies in [[Kerala]]. It is also one of the 7 [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|state legislative assembly]] constituencies included in the [[Thiruvananthapuram (Lok Sabha constituency)|Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency]].
<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://trivandrum.nic.in/constituencies
|website = trivandrum.nic.in
|title = State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala
}}</ref> As of the [[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2021 assembly elections]], the current MLA is V. K. Prasanth of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]].

Vattiyoorkavu constituency came into existence in 2011. Before it was known as Trivandrum North Constituency from 1977 to 2011, and Trivandrum-II constituency from 1957 to 1977.

==Local self governed segments==
Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/thiruvananthapuram.html
|title = Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District
}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable" width="500px" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #666666 solid; font-size: x-big; font-family: verdana"
!width="30px" |Sl no.
!width="100px" |Name
!width="100px" |Wards
!width="130px" |Status ([[Gram panchayat|Grama panchayat]]/[[Municipality]]/[[Municipal corporations in India|Municipal Corporation]])
!width="100px" |[[Tehsil|Taluk]]
|-
|1
|[[Thiruvananthapuram Corporation|Thiruvananthapuram]]
| 24 wards
|Municipal Corporation
|Thiruvananthapuram
|}

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
The following list contains all members of [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|Kerala legislative assembly]] who have represented Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency during the period of various assemblies:<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://www.mapsofindia.com/assemblypolls/kerala/vattiyoorkavu-assembly-constituency-map.html
|title = Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Vattiyoorkavu
}}</ref>

'''Key'''

{{Party index link|Praja Socialist Party}} {{Party index link|Independent politician}} {{Party index link|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}} {{Party index link|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}} {{Party index link|Indian National Congress}}

'''As Trivandrum-II'''
{| 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<br>Sabha
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Member
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" colspan="2"|Party
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Tenure
|-
| [[1957 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
| 1st
| rowspan="2"| [[Pattom Thanu Pillai]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]]
| rowspan="2" width="4px" style="background-color: {{Praja Socialist Party/meta/color}}"|
| 1957 – 1960
|-
| [[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1960]]
| 2nd
| 1960 – 1965
|-
| [[1967 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
| 3rd
| K. C. Vamadevan
| [[Independent politician|Ind.]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{Independent politician/meta/color}}"|
| 1967 – 1970
|-
| [[1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1970]]
| 4th
| [[K. Pankajakshan]]
| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
| 1970 – 1977
|}

'''As Trivandrum North'''
{| 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<br>Sabha
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Member
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" colspan="2"|Party
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Tenure
|-
| [[1977 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
| 5th
| K. Ravindran Nair
| [[Independent politician|Ind.]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{Independent politician/meta/color}}"|
| 1977 – 1980
|-
| [[1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
| 6th
| K. Anirudhan
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
| 1980 – 1982
|-
| [[1982 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
| 7th
| [[G. Karthikeyan]]
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}"|
| 1982 – 1987
|-
| [[1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
| 8th
| rowspan="3"| [[M. Vijayakumar]]
| rowspan="3"| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| rowspan="3" width="4px" style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
| 1987 – 1991
|-
| [[1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
| 9th
| 1991 – 1996
|-
| [[1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
| 10th
| 1996 – 2001
|-
| [[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
| 11th
| K. Mohankumar
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}"|
| 2001 – 2006
|-
| [[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
| 12th
| [[M. Vijayakumar]]
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
| 2006 – 2011
|}

'''As Vattiyoorkavu'''
{| 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<br>Sabha
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Member
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" colspan="2"|Party
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Tenure
|-
| [[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
| 13th
| rowspan="2" |[[K. Muraleedharan]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
| rowspan="2" width="4px" style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}"|
| 2011 – 2016
|-
| [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
| rowspan="2" |14th
| 2016 – 2019
|-
| [[2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections|2019*]]
| rowspan="2" |[[V. K. Prasanth]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| rowspan="2" width="4px" style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
| 2019 - 2021
|-
|[[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election | 2021]]
| 15th
| [[Incumbent]]
|}

* * Byepoll

==Election results==

===Niyamasabha election 2021===

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

====Partywise Results====
{{Election box begin|title=[[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]] : [[Vattiyoorkavu]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=[[V. K. Prasanth]]|votes=61,111|percentage=44.40|change={{gain}}0.15}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=V. V. Rajesh|votes=39,596|percentage=28.77|change={{gain}}6.61}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Veena S. Nair|votes=36,456|percentage=25.76|change={{loss}}6.82}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=N. Murali|votes=890|percentage=0.3|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Social Democratic Party of India|candidate=A. Shyju|votes=201|percentage=0.15|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above|candidate=[[None of the above]]|votes=109|percentage=0.62|change={{loss}}0.04}}
{{Election box margin of victory|
|votes =21,515
|percentage =15.63
|change ={{increase}}3.96
}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,37,636|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner =Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|loser =Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing ={{increase}}0.15
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== Niyamasabha By-election 2019 ===
Due to the election of the sitting MLA [[K. Muraleedharan]] as the [[Member of parliament (India)|MP]] from [[Vatakara (Lok Sabha constituency)]], Vattiyoorkavu Constituency went to bypoll in 2019. There were 1,97,570 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for this election.<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/assembly-bypolls-likely-after-onam/article28462693.ece
|website = www.thehindu.com
|title = Vattiyoorkavu Niyamasabha Constituency goes to bypoll, www.thehindu.com
}}</ref> V. K. Prashanth won by 14,465 votes in the subsequent election conducted in October 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.manoramaonline.com/news/latest-news/2019/10/24/kerala-bypoll-results-live-updates-vattiyoorkavu-election.html|title='ശരിദൂരം'കടന്ന് പ്രശാന്ത്; ബിജെപിക്കും യുഡിഎഫിനും കനത്ത പ്രഹരം|website=ManoramaOnline|language=ml|access-date=2019-10-24}}</ref>

{{Election box begin | title=[[2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections]]: [[Vattiyoorkavu]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = [[V. K. Prasanth]]
|votes = 54,830
|percentage = 44.25%
|change = {{gain}}14.46
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = K. Mohankumar
|votes = 40,365
|percentage = 32.58%
|change = {{loss}}5.23
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|C
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = S. Suresh
|votes = 27,453
|percentage = 22.16%
|change = {{loss}}10.03
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above|None of the Above]]
|votes = 820
|percentage = 0.66%
|change = {{gain}}0.06
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = A.Mohanakumar
|votes = 135
|percentage = 0.11%
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Nagaraj G.
|votes = 100
|percentage = 0.08%
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Suresh S. S.
|votes = 93
|percentage = 0.08%
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Murukan A.
|votes = 76
|percentage = 0.06%
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Mithran G.
|votes = 38
|percentage = 0.03%
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 14,465
|percentage = 11.67%
|change = {{gain}}6.06
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 1,23,910
|percentage = 62.66%
|change = {{loss}}7.17
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|loser = Indian National Congress
|swing = {{gain}}14.46
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== Niyamasabha Election 2016 ===
There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for the 2016 Kerala legislative assembly Election.<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3767-kerala-general-legislative-election-2016
|website = eci.gov.in
|title = Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India
}}</ref>

{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Vattiyoorkavu]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=[[K. Muraleedharan]]|votes=51,322|percentage=37.81|change={{loss}}12.38}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[Kummanam Rajasekharan]]|votes=43,700|percentage=32.19|change={{gain}}20.21}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=[[T. N. Seema]]|votes=40,441|percentage=29.79|change={{loss}}6.05}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Mekkansi K. John|votes=399|percentage=0.29|change=''N/A''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above|candidate=[[None of the above|None of the Above]]|votes=816|percentage=0.60|change=''N/A''}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Binu D.|votes=147|percentage=0.11|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Sahadevan|votes=104|percentage=0.08|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=K. G. Mohanan|votes=77|percentage=0.06|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Baby D.|votes=53|percentage=0.04|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Saju Ameerdas|votes=48|percentage=0.04|change=}}{{Election box majority||votes=7,622|percentage=5.56|change={{loss}}8.79}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,37,108|percentage=70.23|change={{gain}}6.01}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Indian National Congress
|swing = {{loss}}12.38
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== Niyamasabha Election 2011 ===
There were 1,75,398 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]]: [[Vattiyoorkavu]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=K. Muraleedharan|votes=56,531|percentage=50.19|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent politician|candidate=Cheriyan Phillip|votes=40,364|percentage=35.84|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=V. V. Rajesh|votes=13,494|percentage=11.98|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Kaithakodu Radhakrishnan|votes=915|percentage=0.81|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Cheriyan P. T.|votes=551|percentage=0.49|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Rajan K.|votes=488|percentage=0.08|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=G. Balakrishnan Nair|votes=294|percentage=0.26|change=}}{{Election box majority||votes=16,167|percentage=14.35|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,12,637|percentage=64.22|change=}}

{{Election box new seat win|winner=Indian National Congress}}{{Election box end}}

== See also ==
* [[Vattiyoorkavu]]
* [[Thiruvananthapuram district]]
* [[List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly]]
* [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]
* [[2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Kerala Assembly Constituencies}}

{{Kerala Niyamasabha elections}}

[[Category:State assembly constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district]]

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