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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 Indian constituency
| name = Varkala
| mla = [[V. Joy]]
| party = [[File:CPI-M-flag.svg|20px]] [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| alliance = {{legend2|#ED1C24|'''[[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|LDF]]'''|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}
| state = [[Kerala]]
| district = [[Thiruvananthapuram district|Thiruvananthapuram]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Attingal Lok Sabha constituency|Attingal]]
| map_image =
| map_caption =
| established = 1957
| reservation = None
| electors = 1,87,646 (2021)
| type = SLA
| constituency_no = 127
| latest_election_year = [[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
| incumbent_image = File:Wiki joy.jpg
}}
'''Varkala 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 [[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 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
|access-date = 14 March 2021
|archive-date = 29 November 2023
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231129052856/https://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/thiruvananthapuram.html
|url-status = dead
}}</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
|[[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]] who have represented the constituency:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Election
! Member
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[1957 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
| [[T. A. Majeed|T. Abdul Majeed]]
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
| rowspan="3" |[[Communist Party of India]]
|-
| K. Sivadasan
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1960]]
| Balakrishnan
|-
|Shamsuddin
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[1967 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
| rowspan="3" |T. Abdul Majeed
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
| rowspan="3" |[[Communist Party of India]]
|-
|[[1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1970]]
|-
|[[1977 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|-
|[[1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Varkala Radhakrishnan]]
| rowspan="5" style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |
| rowspan="5" |[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|-
|[[1982 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|-
|[[1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|-
|[[1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|-
|[[1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|A. Ali Hassan
|-
|[[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Varkala Kahar]]
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
| rowspan="3" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|-
|[[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|-
|[[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
| rowspan="2"|[[V. Joy]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |
| rowspan="2"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|-
|[[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|}

== 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]]: Varkala}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=INC|candidate=[[Varkala Kahar]]|votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=CPI(M)|candidate=[[Adv. V Joy]]|votes=|percentage=|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=BJP|candidate= [[Adv. Smitha Sundaresan]] |votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Raju S Kottarakonam|votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Anna Democratic Human Rights Movement Party of India|candidate=Vinod Elakamon|votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Kannan M K|votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Vivekanandan K|votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Saju|votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Harikrishnan S G|votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box margin of victory|
|votes =
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|change =
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{{Election box turnout||votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
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{{Election box end}}

=== 2021 ===
There were 1,87,646 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ceo.kerala.gov.in|url=http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/pdf/GE-2021/VoterTurnout2021.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416184312/http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/pdf/GE-2021/VoterTurnout2021.pdf |archive-date=16 April 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://results.eci.gov.in/Result2021/ConstituencywiseS11127.htm?ac=127 |title=Election Commission of India |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507043302/https://results.eci.gov.in/Result2021/ConstituencywiseS11127.htm?ac=127 |archive-date=7 May 2021 |website=results.eci.gov.in}}</ref>

{{Election box begin|title=[[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Varkala}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=[[V. Joy]]|votes=68,816|percentage=50.89|change={{increase}}9.46|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Adv. B. R. M. Shafeer |votes=50,995|percentage=37.71|change={{decrease}}1.86|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharath Dharma Jana Sena|candidate=Aji S|votes=11,214|percentage=8.29|change={{decrease}}7.21|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Anu M.C|votes=1,948|percentage=1.44|change={{decrease}}0.03|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=815|percentage=0.6|change={{increase}}0.11|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Prince|votes=658|percentage=0.49|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Democratic Human Rights Movement Party |candidate=Anilkumar P |votes=460|percentage=0.34|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Shefeer |votes=323|percentage=0.24|change=}}

{{Election box margin of victory||votes=17,821|percentage=13.18|change={{increase}}11.32}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=1,35,229|percentage=72.06|change={{increase}}0.52}}

{{Election box hold with party link|winner=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|swing={{gain}}9.46}}{{Election box end}}

=== 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://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]]: 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}}

=== 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://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]]: Varkala}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party INC|candidate=Varkala Kahar|votes=57,775|percentage=52.40|change=|}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=CPI(M)|candidate=A.A RAHEEM|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}}

=== 2006 ===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Varkala}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Varkala Kahar|votes= 44,883|percentage=48.78|change=|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate= S Sundaresan|votes= 43,258|percentage=47.01|change=|}}
{{Election box margin of victory||votes=1,625|percentage=1.77|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=92,002|percentage=|change=}}

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

=== 2001 ===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]: Varkala}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Varkala Kahar|votes= 45,315|percentage=48.90|change=|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate= P K Gurudasan|votes= 43,327|percentage=46.75|change=|}}
{{Election box margin of victory||votes=1,988|percentage=2.15|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=92,678|percentage=66.94|change=}}

{{Election box gain with party link|winner= Indian National Congress|loser=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|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:Assembly constituencies of Kerala]]

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

Varkala Assembly constituency - Revision history

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