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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2020}}<br />
{{Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency<br />
| constituency number = 97<br />
| name = Kottayam<br />
| image = CMS college physics block.jpg<br />
| caption = [[CMS College Kottayam]], the oldest existing college in India, established in 1815.<br />
| existence = 1957 - present<br />
| reserved = None<br />
| current mla = [[Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan]]<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress|INC]] <br />
| front = {{legend2|{{United Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/color}}|'''[[United Democratic Front (Kerala)|UDF]]'''|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}<br />
| electedbyyear = [[2019]]Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]]<br />
| district = [[Kottayam district|Kottayam]]<br />
| electorate = 1,28,625 (2016)<br />
| self governed segments = {{Collapsible list|bullets=yes<br />
| title = <br />
| 1 = '''[[Municipality]]'''<br>[[Kottayam]]<br />
| 2 = '''[[Gram panchayat|Grama Panchayaths]]'''<br>[[Panachikkad]]<br>Vijayapuram<br />
}}<br />
}} <br />
'''Kottayam State assembly constituency''' is one of the 140 [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|state legislative assembly]] constituencies at the state [[Kerala]] in southern [[India]]. It is also one of the 7 [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|state legislative assembly]] constituencies included in the [[Kottayam (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency]].<ref>{{cite web<br />
| url = https://kottayam.nic.in/constituencies<br />
| website = kottayam.nic.in<br />
| title = State Assembly Constituencies in Kottayam district<br />
|access-date =16 March 2020<br />
}}</ref> As of the [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016 assembly elections]], the current MLA is [[Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan]] of [[Indian National Congress|INC]].<br />
<br />
==Local self governed segments==<br />
Kottayam Niyama Sabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:<ref>{{cite web<br />
|url = http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/kottayam.html<br />
|website = www.ceo.kerala.gov.in<br />
|title = Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Kottayam District<br />
}}</ref><br />
<br />
{|class="sortable" border="2" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" <br />
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"<br />
!width="30px" |Sl no.<br />
!width="100px" |Name<br />
!width="130px" |Status ([[Gram panchayat|Grama panchayat]]/[[Municipality]])<br />
!width="100px" |[[Tehsil|Taluk]]<br />
|-<br />
|1<br />
|[[Kottayam]]<br />
|Municipality<br />
|[[Kottayam]]<br />
|-<br />
|2<br />
|[[Panachikkad]]<br />
|Grama panchayat<br />
|[[Kottayam]]<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|Vijayapuram<br />
|Grama panchayat<br />
|[[Kottayam]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Members of Legislative Assembly ==<br />
The following list contains all members of [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|Kerala legislative assembly]] who have represented the constituency:<br />
<br />
'''Key'''<br />
<br />
{{Party index link|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}{{Party index link|Indian National Congress}}{{Party index link|Independent (politician)}}{{Party index link|Communist Party of India}}<br />
{| class="sortable" width="50%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: x-big;"<br />
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Election<br />
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Niyama<br />
Sabha<br />
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Member<br />
! colspan="2" style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Party<br />
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Tenure<br />
|-<br />
|[[1957 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1957]]<br />
|1st<br />
|P. Bhaskaran Nair<br />
|[[Communist Party of India|CPI]]<br />
| style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}" |<br />
|1957 – 1960<br />
|-<br />
|[[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1960]]<br />
|2nd<br />
|M. P. Govindan Nair<br />
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]<br />
| style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |<br />
|1960 – 1965<br />
|-<br />
|[[1967 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1967]]<br />
|3rd<br />
|M. K. George<br />
| rowspan="2" |[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]<br />
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}" |<br />
|1967 – 1970<br />
|-<br />
|[[1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1970]]<br />
|4th<br />
|M. Thomas<br />
|1970 – 1977<br />
|-<br />
|[[1977 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1977]]<br />
|5th<br />
|[[P. P. George (CPI politician)|P. P. George ]]<br />
|[[Communist Party of India|CPI]]<br />
| style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}" |<br />
|1977 – 1980<br />
|-<br />
|[[1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1980]]<br />
|6th<br />
|[[K. M. Abraham]]<br />
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]<br />
| style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}" |<br />
|1980 – 1982<br />
|-<br />
|[[1982 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1982]]<br />
|7th<br />
|N. Srinivasan<br />
|[[Socialist Republican Party (Kerala)|SRP]]<br />
| style="background-color: {{Independent (politician)/meta/color}}" |<br />
|1982 – 1987<br />
|-<br />
|[[1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1987]]<br />
|8th<br />
| rowspan="3" |[[T. K. Ramakrishnan]]<br />
| rowspan="3" |[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]<br />
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}" |<br />
|1987 – 1991<br />
|-<br />
|[[1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1991]]<br />
|9th<br />
|1991 – 1996<br />
|-<br />
|[[1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1996]]<br />
|10th<br />
|1996 – 2001<br />
|-<br />
|[[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2001]]<br />
|11th<br />
|[[Mercy Ravi]]<br />
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]<br />
| style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |<br />
|2001 – 2006<br />
|-<br />
|[[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2006]]<br />
|12th<br />
|[[V. N. Vasavan]]<br />
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]<br />
| style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}" |<br />
|2006 – 2011<br />
|-<br />
|[[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2011]]<br />
|13th<br />
| rowspan="3" |[[Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan]]<br />
| rowspan="3" |[[Indian National Congress|INC]]<br />
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |<br />
|2011 – 2016<br />
|-<br />
|[[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]]<br />
|14th<br />
| 2016 - 2021<br />
|-<br />
| [[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2021]]<br />
| 15th<br />
| [[Incumbent]]<br />
|}<br />
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== Election results ==<br />
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.<br />
<br />
=== Niyamasabha Election 2016 ===<br />
There were 1,64,097 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><br />
{{Election box begin|title=[[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]] : Kottayam}}<br />
<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan|votes=73,894|percentage=57.46|change={{increase}}10.62|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=Reji Sakaria|votes=40,262|percentage=31.31|change={{decrease}}14.92|}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=M. S. Karunakaran|votes=12,582|percentage=9.78|change={{increase}}5.04|}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=P. K. Geetha Krishnan|votes=651|percentage=0.51|change={{decrease}}1.00|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=483|percentage=0.38|change=-|}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Samajwadi Party|candidate=Roy Chemmanam|votes=403|percentage=0.31|change=-|}}<br />
<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|candidate=Rejitha Jayaram|votes=182|percentage=0.14|change={{decrease}}0.10|}}<br />
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{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=John Joy|votes=88|percentage=0.07|change=-}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Payas C. P.|votes=58|percentage=0.05|change=-}}{{Election box margin of victory||votes=33,632|percentage=26.15|change={{increase}}25.54}}<br />
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,28,603|percentage=78.37|change={{increase}}0.85}}<br />
<br />
{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Indian National Congress|swing={{increase}}10.62}}{{Election box end}}<br />
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=== Niyamasabha Election 2011 ===<br />
There were 1,48,225 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><br />
<br />
{{Election box begin|title=[[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]] : Kottayam}}<br />
<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan|votes=53,825|percentage=46.84|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=V. N. Vasavan|votes=53,114|percentage=46.23|change=-|}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Narayanan Namboothiri|votes=5,449|percentage=4.74|change=-|}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=V. S. Shajan|votes=1,737|percentage=1.51|change=-|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Rajeev Abraham|votes=387|percentage=0.34|change=-|}}<br />
<br />
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{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|candidate=N. K. Biju|votes=276|percentage=0.24|change=-|}}<br />
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{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=George P. Elias|votes=113|percentage=0.10|change=}}{{Election box margin of victory||votes=711|percentage=0.61|change=}}<br />
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,14,901|percentage=77.52|change=}}<br />
<br />
{{Election box gain with party link|winner=Indian National Congress|loser=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|swing=}}{{Election box end}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Kottayam]]<br />
* [[Kottayam district]]<br />
* [[List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly]]<br />
* [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{Kerala Assembly Constituencies}}<br />
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{{Kerala Niyamasabha elections}}<br />
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[[Category:State assembly constituencies in Kottayam district]]</div>
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