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{{Short description|Constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Thiruvalla
| type = SLA
| state = Kerala
| constituency_no = 111
| map_image = File:Thiruvallakkar.jpg
| map_caption = [[Thiruvalla]] town
| established = 1957
| reservation = None
| electors = 2,08,798 (2016)
| mla = [[Varghese Mammen]]
| alliance = {{legend2|#0087BD |'''[[United Democratic Front (Kerala)|UDF]]'''|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
| party = [[Kerala Congress]]
| latest_election_year = [[2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
| district = [[Pathanamthitta district|Pathanamthitta]]
}}
'''Thiruvalla State assembly constituency''' is one of the 140 [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|state legislative assembly]] constituencies in [[Kerala]] in southern [[India]]. It is also one of the seven [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|state legislative assembly]] constituencies included in [[Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency]].<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://pathanamthitta.nic.in/ml/elected-members-and-constituencies
|website = pathanamthitta.nic.in
|title = State Assembly Constituencies in Pathanamthitta district
|access-date =16 March 2020
}}</ref> The current MLA is [[ Varghese Mammen]] of [[Kerala Congress |KEC(J) ]].

==Local self-governed segments==
Thiruvalla Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/pathanamthitta.html
|website = www.ceo.kerala.gov.in
|title = Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Pathanamthitta District
}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
!width="30px" |Sl no.
!width="100px" |Name
!width="130px" |Status ([[Gram panchayat|Grama panchayat]]/[[Municipality]])
!width="100px" |[[Tehsil|Taluk]]
|-
|1
|[[Thiruvalla]]
|Municipality
|[[Thiruvalla taluk|Thiruvalla]]
|-
|2
|[[Kadapra]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Thiruvalla taluk|Thiruvalla]]
|-
|3
|[[Kaviyoor]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Thiruvalla taluk|Thiruvalla]]
|-
|4
|[[Kuttoor (Thiruvalla)|Kuttoor]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Thiruvalla taluk|Thiruvalla]]
|-
|5
|[[Nedumpuram]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Thiruvalla taluk|Thiruvalla]]
|-
|6
|[[Niranam]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Thiruvalla taluk|Thiruvalla]]
|-
|7
|[[Peringara]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Thiruvalla taluk|Thiruvalla]]
|-
|8
|[[Anicadu]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Mallappally Taluk|Mallappally]]
|-
|9
|[[Kallooppara]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Mallappally Taluk|Mallappally]]
|-
|10
|[[Mallapally]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Mallappally Taluk|Mallappally]]
|-
|11
|[[Puramattam]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Mallappally Taluk|Mallappally]]
|-
|12
|[[Kunnamthanam]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Mallappally Taluk|Mallappally]]
|}

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

'''Key'''

{{Party index link|Communist Party of India}}{{Party index link|Kerala Congress}}{{Party index link|Indian National Congress}}{{Party index link|Independent (politician)}}{{Party index link|Janata Party}}{{Party index link|Kerala Congress (Mani)}} {{Party index link|Janata Dal (Secular)}}
{| 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
|[[G. Padmanabhan Thampi]]
|[[Communist Party of India|CPI]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
|1957 – 1960
|-
|[[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1960]]
|2nd
|[[P. Chacko]]
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|1960 – 1965
|-
|[[1967 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|3rd
| rowspan="3" |[[E. John Jacob]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Kerala Congress|KEC]]
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Kerala Congress}}" |
|1967 – 1970
|-
|[[1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1970]]
|4th
|1970 – 1977
|-
|[[1977 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|5th
|1977 – 1979
|-
|1979*
|5th
|P. C. Thomas Painummoottil
| rowspan="2" |[[Janata Party|JNP]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Party}}" |
|1977 – 1979
|-
|[[1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
|6th
| rowspan="2" |P. C. Thomas Painummoottil
|1980 – 1982
|-
|[[1982 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|7th
|[[Independent (politician)|Ind.]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Independent (politician)}}" |
|1982 – 1987
|-
|[[1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|8th
|[[Mathew T. Thomas]]
|[[Janata Party|JNP]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Party}}" |
|1987 – 1991
|-
|[[1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|9th
| rowspan="3" |[[Mammen Mathai]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Kerala Congress (M)|KC(M)]]
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: {{party color|Kerala Congress (Mani)}}" |
|1991 – 1996
|-
|[[1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|10th
|1996 – 2001
|-
|[[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|11th
|2001 – 2003
|-
|2003*
|11th
|Elizabeth Mammen Mathai
|2003 – 2006
|-
|[[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|12th
| rowspan="4" |Mathew T. Thomas
| rowspan="4" |[[Janata Dal (Secular)|JD(S)]]
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Dal (Secular)}}" |
|2006 – 2011
|-
|[[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|13th
|2011 – 2016
|-
|[[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|14th
|2016 - 2021
|-
|2021
|15th
|2021 - 2026
|-
|[[2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
|16th
| Varghese Mamman
| rowspan="4" |[[Kerala Congress]]
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: {{party color|Kerala Congress)}}" |
| 2026 - 2031
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>by-election

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

===2026===

{{Election box begin | title=[[2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Thiruvalla}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Kerala Congress|candidate=Varghese Mammen|votes=53,224|percentage=37.82|change={{increase}}1.45}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=BJP|candidate=Anoop Antony|votes=43,078|percentage=30.61|change={{increase}}14.36}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian Socialist Janata Dal|candidate=[[Mathew T. Thomas]]|votes=42,023|percentage=29.86|change={{decrease}}14.7}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Ramesh Chathenkary|votes=999|percentage=0.71|change={{decrease}}0.06}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent|candidate=Thomas Mammen|votes=553|percentage=0.39|change=New}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=504|percentage=0.36|change={{decrease}}0.08}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent|candidate=Aju Alex|votes=220|percentage=0.16|change=New}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent|candidate=Zeen Thomas|votes=144|percentage=0.10|change=New}}{{Election box margin of victory|
|votes =10,146
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,40,745|percentage=69.47%|change={{increase}}6.13}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Kerala Congress
|loser = Janata Dal (Secular)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2021 ===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Thiruvalla}}{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Janata Dal (Secular)|candidate=[[Mathew T. Thomas]]|votes=62,178|percentage=44.56|change={{increase}}3.28|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Kerala Congress|candidate=Kunju Koshy Paul|votes=50,757|percentage=36.37|change=New|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Ashokan Kulanada|votes=22,674|percentage=16.25|change=New|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent|candidate=Thomas Mathew|votes=1,461|percentage=1.05|change=New|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Rajendra Das|votes=1,074|percentage=0.77|change={{increase}}0.25|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=608|percentage=0.44|change={{increase}}0.11|}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=1,39,544|percentage=-|change=-}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Janata Dal (Secular)|swing={{increase}}3.28}}{{Election box end}}

=== 2016 ===
There were 2,08,798 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India|url=https://old.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]]: Thiruvalla}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Janata Dal (Secular)|candidate=[[Mathew T. Thomas]]|votes=59,660|percentage=41.28|change={{decrease}}8.69|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Kerala Congress (M)|candidate=Joseph M. Puthussery|votes=51,398|percentage=35.56|change={{decrease}}5.91|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharath Dharma Jana Sena|candidate=Akkerman Kalidasan Bhattathiripad|votes=31,439|percentage=21.75|change=-|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Saji Kadampanad|votes=756|percentage=0.52|change={{decrease}}0.67|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=479|percentage=0.33|change=-|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Social Democratic Party of India|candidate=Simi M. Jacob|votes=444|percentage=0.31|change={{increase}}0.02|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Cherian M. V.|votes=366|percentage=0.25|change=|}}

{{Election box margin of victory||votes=8,262|percentage=5.72|change={{decrease}}2.78}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,44,542|percentage=69.23|change={{increase}}3.91}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Janata Dal (Secular)|swing={{decrease}}8.69}}{{Election box end}}

=== 2011 ===
There were 1,93,874 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India|url=https://old.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]]: Thiruvalla}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Janata Dal (Secular)|candidate=[[Mathew T. Thomas]]|votes=63,289|percentage=49.97|change=|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Kerala Congress (M)|candidate=Victor T. Thomas|votes=52,522|percentage=41.47|change=|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Rajan Moolaveetil|votes=7,656|percentage=6.05|change=|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Kurian Joseph|votes=1,511|percentage=1.19|change=-|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|candidate=Radhamani S.|votes=456|percentage=0.36|change=-|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate= Niranam Rajan|votes=439|percentage=0.35|change=-|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=P. K .Sukumaran|votes=398|percentage=0.31|change=|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Social Democratic Party of India|candidate=Sam Kutty Jacob|votes=371|percentage=0.29|change=}}{{Election box margin of victory||votes=10,737|percentage=8.50|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,26,642|percentage=65.32|change=}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Janata Dal (Secular)|swing=}}{{Election box end}}

===2006===
There were 1,10,867 registered voters in the constituency for the 2006 election.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Thiruvalla}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Janata Dal (Secular)
|candidate = [[Mathew T. Thomas]]
|votes = 28,874
|percentage = 40.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Kerala Congress (Mani)
|candidate = Victory T. Thomas
|votes = 19,952
|percentage = 28.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Sam Eapen
|votes = 14,300
|percentage = 20.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = BJP
|candidate = Madhu Parumala
|votes = 6,842
|percentage = 9.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Subramanian Nampoothiri
|votes = 376
|percentage = 0.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Adv. Mathew P. Thomas
|votes = 350
|percentage = 0.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = AIADMK
|candidate = Ambalapuzha Nateshan
|votes = 302
|percentage = 0.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Krishnan Kutty
|votes = 137
|percentage = 0.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box margin of victory|
|votes = 8,922
|percentage = 12.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 71,137
|percentage = 64.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Janata Dal (Secular)
|loser = Kerala Congress (Mani)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2001===
There were 1,15,694 registered voters in the constituency for the 2001 election.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Thiruvalla}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Kerala Congress (Mani)
|candidate = Adv. Mammen Mathai
|votes = 42,397
|percentage = 51.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Janata Dal (Secular)
|candidate = Dr. Varghese George
|votes = 32,336
|percentage = 39.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = BJP
|candidate = Adv. P. K. Vishnu Namboothiri
|votes = 7,400
|percentage = 9.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box margin of victory|
|votes = 10,061
|percentage = 12.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 82,151
|percentage = 71.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Kerala Congress (Mani)
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==See also==
* [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]
* [[List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Pathanamthitta district]]
* [[Thiruvalla]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Kerala Assembly Constituencies}}

{{Kerala Niyamasabha elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Kerala]]
[[Category:State assembly constituencies in Pathanamthitta district]]
[[Category:Thiruvalla]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1957]]
[[Category:1957 establishments in Kerala]]

Thiruvalla Assembly constituency - Revision history

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