Alappuzha (Lok Sabha constituency)

Alappuzha
Alappuzha
Lok Sabha Constituency
	Map of Alappuzha Parliament Constituency
Incumbent	A.M. Ariff
Parliamentary Party	CPI(M)
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1962
Reservation	None
State	Kerala
Assembly Constituencies	7

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Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency (Malayalam: ആലപ്പുഴ ലോക്സഭാ നിയോജക മണ്ഡലം) is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Kerala state in southern India.

Assembly segments[edit]

Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[1]

SI No.	Name
1.	Aroor
2.	Cherthala
3.	Alappuzha
4.	Ambalappuzha
5.	Haripad
6.	Kayamkulam
7.	Karunagappally

Members of Parliament[edit]

As Alleppey in Travancore-Cochin

Election	Lok Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1952	1st	P.T. Punnoose		Communist Party of India	1952-1957

As Ambalappuzha

Election	Lok Sabha	Member		Tenure
1957	2nd	P.T. Punnoose	Communist Party of India	1957-1962
1962	3rd	P. K. Vasudevan Nair	Communist Party of India	1962-1967
1967	4th	Susheela Gopalan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1967-1971
1971	5th	K. Balakrishnan	Revolutionary Socialist Party	1971-1977

As Alappuzha

Election	Lok Sabha	Member		Tenure
1977	6th	V. M. Sudheeran	Indian National Congress	1977-1980
1980	7th	Susheela Gopalan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1980-1984
1984	8th	Vakkom Purushothaman	Indian National Congress	1984-1989
1989	9th	Vakkom Purushothaman	Indian National Congress	1989-1991
1991	10th	T. J. Anjalose	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1991-1996
1996	11th	V. M. Sudheeran	Indian National Congress	1996-1998
1998	12th			1998-1999
1999	13th			1999-2004
2004	14th	K. S. Manoj	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2004-2009
2009	15th	K.C Venugopal	Indian National Congress	2009-2014
2014	16th	K.C Venugopal	Indian National Congress	2014-2019
2019	17th	A.M. Ariff	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Incumbent

Election results[edit]

General election 2019[edit]

According to Election Commission, there are 13,14,535 registered voters in Alappuzha Constituency for 2019 Lok Sabha Election.^[2]

2019 Indian general elections : Alappuzha
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Adv A. M. Ariff	4,45,981	40.96	-3.41
	INC	Adv Shanimol Usman	4,35,496	40.00	-6.31
	BJP	Dr K S Radhakrishnan	1,87,729	17.24	+17.24
	SDPI	KS Shan	3,593	0.33
	NOTA	None of the above	6,065	0.56
Margin of victory			10,474
Turnout			10,90,112	80.35
	CPI (M) gain from INC		Swing

General election 2014[edit]

A.V.Thamarakshan is contesting as an NDA Candidate of Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik), a BJP led NDA Partner for Lok Sabha Elections 2014^[3]

2014 Indian general elections : Alappuzha
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K.C. Venugopal	462,525	46.31	-5.31
	CPI (M)	C.B. Chandrababu	443,118	44.37	-0.90
style="background-color: Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik)\|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik)/meta/shortname]]	A.V. Thamarakshan	43,051	4.31	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	11,338	1.14	---
Margin of victory			19,407	1.95	-4.40
Turnout			997,464	78.85
	INC hold		Swing

References[edit]

↑ "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies" (PDF). Kerala. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2008.
↑ K, Abdul Basheer V. "2019 General Election Alappuzha Constituency Live Results".
↑ "BJP Forms State Chapter of NDA with 4 Parties". The New Indian Express.

External links[edit]

Template:Lok Sabha constituencies of Kerala

Coordinates: 9°31′N 76°20′E / 9.51°N 76.34°E / 9.51; 76.34

[1] "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies" (PDF). Kerala. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2008.

[2] K, Abdul Basheer V. "2019 General Election Alappuzha Constituency Live Results".

[3] "BJP Forms State Chapter of NDA with 4 Parties". The New Indian Express.

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