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{{short description|Constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency
| constituency number= 127
| name = Varkala
| image = Varkala Underpass Road.jpg
| caption = The [[Varkala]] Underpass Road opened in 2001
| existence = 1957 - present
| reserved = General
| current mla = [[V. Joy]]
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| front = {{legend2|#ED1C24|'''[[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|LDF]]'''|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
| electedbyyear = [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
| district = [[Thiruvananthapuram district|Thiruvananthapuram]]
| electorate = 1,87,646 (2021)
| self governed segments= {{Collapsible list|bullets=yes
| title =
| 1 = '''[[Municipality]]''' [[Varkala]]
| 2 = '''[[Gram panchayat|Grama Panchayaths]]''' [[Chemmaruthy]] [[Edava]] Elakamon [[Madavoor-Pallickal|Madavoor]] [[Navaikulam]] [[Pallickal, Thiruvananthapuram|Pallickal]] [[Vettoor]]
}}
}}
'''Varkala 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 [[Attingal (Lok Sabha constituency)|Attingal Lok Sabha constituency]].<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://trivandrum.nic.in/constituencies
|website = trivandrum.nic.in
|title = State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district
|access-date = 16 March 2020
}}</ref> As of the [[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2021 assembly elections]], the current MLA is [[V. Joy]] of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]].

==Local self governed segments==
Varkala Niyamasabha 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="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%;"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
!width="30px" |Sl no.
!width="100px" |Name
!width="130px" |Status ([[Gram panchayat|Grama panchayat]]/[[Municipality]])
!width="100px" |[[Tehsil|Taluk]]
|-
|1
|[[Varkala]]
|Municipality
|[[Varkala Taluk|Varkala]]
|-
|2
|[[Chemmaruthy]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Varkala Taluk|Varkala]]
|-
|3
|[[Edava]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Varkala Taluk|Varkala]]
|-
|4
|Elakamon
|Grama panchayat
|[[Varkala Taluk|Varkala]]
|-
|5
|[[Madavoor-Pallickal|Madavoor]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Varkala Taluk|Varkala]]
|-
|6
|[[Navaikulam]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Varkala Taluk|Varkala]]
|-
|7
|[[Pallickal, Thiruvananthapuram|Pallickal]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Varkala Taluk|Varkala]]
|-
|8
|[[Vettoor]]
|Grama panchayat
|[[Varkala Taluk|Varkala]]
|}

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

'''Key'''

{{Party index link|Indian National Congress}}{{Party index link|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}{{Party index link|Communist Party of India}}
{| 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
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[1957 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
| rowspan="2" |1st
| [[T. A. Majeed|T. Abdul Majeed]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Communist Party of India|CPI]]
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
| rowspan="2" |1957 – 1960
|-
| K. Sivadasan
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1960]]
| rowspan="2" |2nd
| Balakrishnan
| rowspan="2" |1960 – 1965
|-
|Shamsuddin
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|-
|[[1967 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|3rd
| rowspan="2" |[[T. A. Majeed|T. Abdul Majeed]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Communist Party of India|CPI]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
|1967 – 1970
|-
|[[1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1970]]
|4th
|1970 – 1977
|-
|[[1977 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|5th
| rowspan="5" |[[Varkala Radhakrishnan]]
| rowspan="6" |[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| rowspan="6" style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |
|1977 – 1980
|-
|[[1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
|6th
|1980 – 1982
|-
|[[1982 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|7th
|1982 – 1987
|-
|[[1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|8th
|1987 – 1991
|-
|[[1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|9th
|1991 – 1996
|-
|[[1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|10th
|A. Ali Hassan
|1996 – 2001
|-
|[[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|11th
| rowspan="3" |[[Varkala Kahar]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|2001 – 2006
|-
|[[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|12th
|2006 – 2011
|-
|[[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|13th
|2011 – 2016
|-
|[[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|14th
| rowspan="2"|[[V. Joy]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |
| 2016 - 2021
|-
|[[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|15th
|[[Incumbent]]
|}

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

=== Niyamasabha Election 2016 ===
There were 1,79,160 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 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>
{{Election box begin|title=[[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Varkala}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=V. Joy|votes=53,102|percentage=41.43|change={{decrease}}1.25|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Varkala Kahar|votes=50,716|percentage=39.57|change={{decrease}}12.83|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharath Dharma Jana Sena|candidate=Aji S. R. M.|votes=19,872|percentage=15.50|change=|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Varkala P. Linees|votes=1,888|percentage=1.47|change=|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=628|percentage=0.49|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Social Democratic Party of India|candidate=Abdul Salam|votes=466|percentage=0.36|change={{decrease}}0.36}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Sunil Kumar S.|votes=357|percentage=0.28|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Sudevan|votes=351|percentage=0.27|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Peoples Democratic Party (India)|candidate=Nadayara Jabbar|votes=297|percentage=0.23|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Bhasidharan Nair|votes=138|percentage=0.11|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Salu R.|votes=135|percentage=0.11|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Varkala Sabesan|votes=126|percentage=0.10|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Vivekanandan|votes=101|percentage=0.08|change=}}{{Election box margin of victory||votes=2,386|percentage=1.86|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,28,177|percentage=71.54|change={{decrease}}1.01}}

{{Election box gain with party link|winner=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|loser=Indian National Congress|swing=}}{{Election box end}}

=== Niyamasabha Election 2011 ===
There were 1,51,930 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]]: Varkala}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Varkala Kahar|votes=57,775|percentage=52.40|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=A. A. Rahim|votes=47,045|percentage=42.68|change=|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Elakaman Satheesan|votes=3,430|percentage=3.11|change=|}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Cherunniyoor Ganesh|votes=927|percentage=0.84|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Social Democratic Party of India|candidate=Kunnil Shahjahan|votes=795|percentage=0.72|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Aneesh Kumar|votes=275|percentage=0.25|change=}}{{Election box margin of victory||votes=10,710|percentage=9.72|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,10,227|percentage=72.55|change=}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Indian National Congress|swing=}}{{Election box end}}

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

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Kerala Assembly Constituencies}}

{{Kerala Niyamasabha elections}}

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

Varkala (State Assembly constituency) - Revision history

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