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{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Thiruvananthapuram Central
| type = SLA
| constituency_no = 134
| state = [[Kerala]]
| district = [[Thiruvananthapuram district|Thiruvananthapuram]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency|Thiruvananthapuram]]
| map_image = Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple Lakshadeepam.jpg
| map_caption = Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple,Located In Thiruvananthapuram Central Constituency
| established = 2008
| reservation = None
| electors = 2,03,584 (2021)
| mla = [[C. P. John]]
| party = [[Communist Marxist Party]]
| alliance = {{legend2|#0087BD |'''[[United Democratic Front (Kerala)|UDF]]'''|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
| latest_election_year = [[2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
}}
'''Thiruvananthapuram Central Assembly constituency''' is one of the 140 [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|state legislative assembly]] constituencies in [[Kerala]], India. It is one of the seven assembly segments that constitute the [[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> It has been vacant since 3 January 2026 following the disqualification of [[Antony Raju]], who was elected in 2021 election, after a three-year conviction for tampering with the evidence in a drug-related case.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=28 January 2026 |title=Kerala MLA Antony Raju gets disqualified for conviction in 1990 drug case |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kerala-mla-antony-raju-gets-disqualified-for-conviction-in-1990-drug-case-101767671034896.html |work=Hindustan Times}}</ref>

Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency was established by the 2008 delimitation. Before, it was known as Trivandrum West Assembly Constituency from 1977 to 2008, and Trivandrum-I Assembly constituency from 1957 to 1977.

==Local self-governed segments==
Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/thiruvananthapuram.html
|website = www.ceo.kerala.gov.in
|title = Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District
}}</ref>
{|class="wikitable" width="650px" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #666666 solid; font-size: x-big"
!width="30px" |Sl no.
!width="100px" |Name
!width="150px" |Ward no.
!width="130px" |Status ([[Gram panchayat|Grama panchayat]]/[[Municipality]]/[[Municipal corporations in India|Municipal Corporation]])
!width="100px" |[[Tehsil|Taluk]]
|-
|1
|[[Thiruvananthapuram Corporation|Thiruvananthapuram]]
| 26-30
40-47

59-60

69-75

77-78

80
|Municipal Corporation
|Thiruvananthapuram
|}

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

===Thiruvananthapuram-I===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Election
! Member
! colspan="2"|Party
|-
| [[1957 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
| rowspan="2"| E. P. Eapen
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Praja Socialist Party}}"|
| rowspan="2"| [[Praja Socialist Party]]
|-
| [[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1960]]
|-
| [[1967 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
| B. M. Nair
| style="background-color: {{party color|Samyukta Socialist Party}}"|
| [[Samyukta Socialist Party]]
|-

| [[1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1970]]
| N. Gopala Pillai
| style="background-color: {{party color|Praja Socialist Party}}"|
| [[Praja Socialist Party]]

|}

===Thiruvananthapuram West===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Election
! Member
! colspan="2"|Party
|-
| [[1977 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
| [[K. Pankajakshan]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}"|
| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)]]
|-
| [[1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
| rowspan="2"| P. A. Muhammad Kannu
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian Union Muslim League}}"|
| rowspan="2"| [[Indian Union Muslim League]]
|-
| [[1982 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|-
| [[1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
| rowspan="2"| [[M. M. Hassan]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
| rowspan="2"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|-
| [[1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|-
| [[1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
| [[Antony Raju]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Kerala Congress}}"|
| [[Kerala Congress]]
|-
| [[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
| [[M. V. Raghavan]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}"|
| [[Communist Marxist Party]]
|-
| [[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
| [[V. Surendran Pillai]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Kerala Congress}}"|
| [[Kerala Congress]]
|}

===Thiruvananthapuram===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Election
! Member
! colspan="2"|Party
|-
| [[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
| rowspan="2" |[[V. S. Sivakumar]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
| rowspan="2" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
| [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|-
|[[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|[[Antony Raju|Adv. Antony Raju]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Janadhipathya Kerala Congress}}"|
|[[Janadhipathya Kerala Congress]]
|-
|[[2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
|[[C. P. John]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Marxist Party}}"|
|[[Communist Marxist Party]]
|}
{{notelist}}

==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]]: Thiruvananthapuram}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Marxist Party|candidate=[[C. P. John]]|votes=45,586|percentage=37.83|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|candidate=[[Sudheer Karamana]]|votes=35,723|percentage=29.65|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=BJP|candidate=Karamana Jayan|votes=35,125|percentage=29.15|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Aam Aadmi Party|candidate=Samin Sathyadas|votes=556|percentage=0.46|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|candidate=A. Saboora|votes=227|percentage=0.19|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=909|percentage=0.75|change=}}
{{Election box margin of victory|
|votes =9863
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2021 ===
There were 2,03,584 registered voters in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/pdf/GE-2021/statistical_report.pdf |title=Legislative Assembly 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260121075941/https://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/pdf/GE-2021/statistical_report.pdf |website=ceo.kerala.gov.in |archive-date=21 January 2026|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Thiruvananthapuram}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link||party=Janadhipathya Kerala Congress|candidate=[[Antony Raju|Adv. Antony Raju]]|votes=48,748|percentage=38.01|change={{increase}}9.83}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=[[V. S. Sivakumar]]|votes=41,669|percentage=32.49|change={{decrease}}4.33}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|Increase 0.25|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[Krishnakumar|Krishnakumar G.]]|votes=34,996|percentage=27.29|change={{loss}}0.25}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above|candidate=[[None of the above|None of the Above]]|votes=1054|percentage=0.82|change={{decrease}}0.32}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Abhilash Vadakkan|votes=436|percentage=0.34|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) |candidate=A. Saboora|votes=366|percentage=0.29|change={{loss}}0.02}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Raju Antony|votes=289|percentage=0.23|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Chala Mohanan D.|votes=245|percentage=0.19|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Antony Raju S/o Raju|votes=190|percentage=0.15|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Sivakumar K. S/o Kumara Swamy|votes=164|percentage=0.13|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Krishnakumar T. S. S/o Sankarankutty|votes=89|percentage=0.07|change=–}}

{{Election box majority||votes=7,089|percentage=5.57|change={{loss}}3.07}}
{{Election box turnout ||votes=1,28,322|percentage=63.03|change={{loss}}2.33}}
{{Election box gain with party link|winner=Janadhipathya Kerala Congress|loser=Indian National Congress|swing={{gain}}9.83}}{{Election box end}}

=== 2016 ===
There were 1,93,101 registered voters in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://old.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]]: Thiruvananthapuram}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=[[V. S. Sivakumar]]|votes=46,474|percentage=36.82|change={{decrease}}9.05}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Janadhipathya Kerala Congress|candidate=[[Antony Raju|Adv. Antony Raju]]|votes=35,569|percentage=28.18|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[S. Sreesanth]]|votes=34,764|percentage=27.54|change={{increase}}16.78}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|candidate=Dr. Biju Ramesh|votes=5,762|percentage=4.57|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above|candidate=[[None of the above|None of the Above]]|votes=1,435|percentage=1.14|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Nandavanam Suseelan|votes=450|percentage=0.36|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Antony Raju New Colony|votes=424|percentage=0.34|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Mohanambika D.|votes=398|percentage=0.32|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|candidate=P. S. Gopakumar|votes=344|percentage=0.27|change={{increase}}0.05}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Sivakumar Raveendran Nair|votes=208|percentage=0.16|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Praveen Arimbrathodiyil|votes=170|percentage=0.13|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent (politician)|candidate=M. S. Subi|votes=113|percentage=0.09|change=–}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent (politician)|candidate=Sivakumar Pushkaran|votes=101|percentage=0.08|change=–}}
{{Election box majority||votes=10,905|percentage=8.64|change={{increase}}3.64}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,26,212|percentage=65.36|change={{increase}}5.01}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Indian National Congress
|swing ={{decrease}}9.05
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2011 ===
There were ,1,77,442 registered voters in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the 2011 Kerala Assembly 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]]: Thiruvananthapuram}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=[[V. S. Sivakumar]]|votes=49,122|percentage=45.87|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Kerala Congress|candidate=[[V. Surendran Pillai]]|votes=43,770|percentage=40.87|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=B. K. Sekhar|votes=11,519|percentage=10.76|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Social Democratic Party of India|candidate=Abdu Razak A.|votes=807|percentage=0.75|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent politician|candidate=P. Surendran Pillai|votes=518|percentage=0.48|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent (politician)|candidate=S. Sivakumar|votes=485|percentage=0.45|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|candidate=P. S. Gopakumar|votes=235|percentage=0.22|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent politician|candidate=N. Sivakumar|votes=221|percentage=0.21|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent politician|candidate=Sundaran Pillai|votes=207|percentage=0.19|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent (politician)|candidate=C. Vasantha Kumar|votes=110|percentage=0.10|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent (politician)|candidate=George Mankidan|votes=98|percentage=0.09|change=}}

{{Election box majority||votes=5,352|percentage=5.00|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,07,092|percentage=60.35|change=}}

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

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

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Kerala Assembly Constituencies}}

{{Kerala Niyamasabha elections}}
[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Kerala]]

[[Category:State assembly constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district]]
[[Category:Thiruvananthapuram]]
[[Category:2008 establishments in Kerala]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 2008]]

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