| Aranmula | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 113 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
 The centre of the Aranmula kannadi is located in Aranmula Assembly constituency. | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | South India |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Pathanamthitta |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 2,37,351 (2021) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 16th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
 | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Indian National Congress |
| Alliance | UDF |
| Elected year | 2026 |
Aranmula State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is Adv Abin Varkey of the Indian National Congress.
Local self-governed segments[edit | edit source]
Aranmula Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:[2]
| Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk |
|---|---|---|
| Pathanamthitta | Municipality | Kozhencherry[3] |
| Aranmula | Grama panchayat | Kozhencherry |
| Chenneerkara | Grama panchayat | Kozhencherry |
| Elanthoor | Grama panchayat | Kozhencherry |
| Kozhencherry | Grama panchayat | Kozhencherry |
| Kulanada | Grama panchayat | Kozhencherry |
| Mallappuzhassery | Grama panchayat | Kozhencherry |
| Mezhuveli | Grama panchayat | Kozhencherry |
| Naranganam | Grama panchayat | Kozhencherry |
| Omalloor | Grama panchayat | Kozhencherry |
| Eraviperoor | Grama panchayat | Thiruvalla |
| Koipuram | Grama panchayat | Thiruvalla |
| Thottapuzhassery | Grama panchayat | Thiruvalla |
Members of Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]
The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Aranmula Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies:[4]
Key
INC CPI (M) Independent [[National Democratic Party (Kerala)|Template:National Democratic Party (Kerala)/meta/shortname]] [[Samyukta Socialist Party|Template:Samyukta Socialist Party/meta/shortname]]
| Election | Niyama Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | K. Gopinathan Pillai | INC | 1957 – 1960 | |
| 1960 | 2nd | 1960 – 1965 | |||
| 1967 | 3rd | P. N. Chandrasenan | Samyukta Socialist Party | 1967 – 1970 | |
| 1970 | 4th | Independent | 1970 – 1977 | ||
| 1977 | 5th | M. K. Hemachandran | INC | 1977 – 1980 | |
| 1980 | 6th | K. K. Sreenivasan | 1980 – 1982 | ||
| 1982 | 7th | 1982 – 1987 | |||
| 1987 | 8th | 1987 – 1991 | |||
| 1991 | 9th | R. Ramachandran Nair | National Democratic Party | 1991 – 1996 | |
| 1996 | 10th | Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan | Left Democratic Front | 1996 – 2001 | |
| 2001 | 11th | Malethu Saraladevi | INC | 2001 – 2006 | |
| 2006 | 12th | K. C. Rajagopalan | CPI (M) | 2006 – 2011 | |
| 2011 | 13th | K. Sivadasan Nair | INC | 2011 – 2016 | |
| 2016 | 14th | Veena George | CPI (M) | 2016 – 2021 | |
| 2021 | 15th | 2021 – 2026 | |||
| 2026 | 16th | Abin Varkey | INC | 2026 – 2030 | |
Election results[edit | edit source]
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
2026[edit | edit source]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Abin Varkey | 70,083 | |||
| CPI(M) | Veena George | 51,098 | |||
| BJP | Kummanam Rajasekharan | 34,983 | |||
| NOTA | None of the above | 615 | |||
| Margin of victory | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
2021[edit | edit source]
There were 2,37,351 registered voters in Aranmula Constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Veena George | 74,950 | 46.3 |  6.33
| |
| INC | K. Sivadasan Nair | 55,947 | 34.56 |  0.67
| |
| BJP | Biju Mathew | 29,099 | 17.98 | 5.5
| |
| Independent | Sivadasan Nair S/o Raghavan Nair | 629 | 0.39 | N/A | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 575 | 0.36 | N/A | |
| Margin of victory | 19,003 | 11.74 | 7
| ||
| Turnout | 1,61,866 | 68.19 | 2.63
| ||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | 6.33
|
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2016[edit | edit source]
There were 2,27,943 registered voters in Aranmula Constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Veena George | 64,523 | 39.97 | 2.93
| |
| INC | K. Sivadasan Nair | 56,877 | 35.23 | 12.46
| |
| BJP | M. T. Ramesh | 37,906 | 23.48 | 15.96
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 569 | 0.35 | N/A | |
| BSP | T. Amrithakumar | 548 | 0.34 | 0.19
| |
| SP | Sreekanth M. Vallakkottu | 252 | 0.16 | N/A | |
| Independent | Chandran | 249 | 0.15 | N/A | |
| SUCI(C) | Anil Kumar K. G. | 217 | 0.13 | N/A | |
| PDP | Habeeb Rahman | 187 | 0.12 | N/A | |
| Independent | Shaji Mezhuveli | 104 | 0.06 | N/A | |
| Margin of victory | 7,646 | 4.74 | 0.05
| ||
| Turnout | 1,61,432 | 70.82 | 5.20
| ||
| CPI (M) gain from INC | Swing | 2.93
|
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2011[edit | edit source]
There were 2,07,229 registered voters in Aranmula Constituency for the 2011 Kerala Assembly election.[7]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | K. Sivadasan Nair | 64,845 | 47.69 | 35.89
| |
| CPI(M) | K. C. Rajagopalan | 58,334 | 42.90 | 5.82
| |
| BJP | K. Haridas | 10,227 | 7.52 | 1.44
| |
| BSP | T. Amrithakumar | 721 | 0.53 | ||
| SDPI | Nazurudheen | 709 | 0.52 | ||
| Independent | Sugathan R. | 387 | 0.28 | ||
| Independent | D. Sivadasan Achari | 343 | 0.25 | ||
| Independent | Madhu G. | 206 | 0.15 | ||
| SLAP | K. V. Varghese | 134 | 0.10 | 0.80
| |
| Independent | Pushpangadan | 69 | 0.05 | ||
| Margin of victory | 6,511 | 4.79 | 16.17
| ||
| Turnout | 1,35,975 | 65.62 | 3.39
| ||
| INC gain from CPI (M) | Swing | 35.89
|
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2006[edit | edit source]
There were 1,12,086 registered voters in the constituency for the 2006 election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | K. C. Rajagopalan | 34,007 | 48.8 | 2.6
| |
| Independent | K. R. Rajappan | 19,387 | 27.8 | − | |
| DIC | Malethu Saraladevi | 8,244 | 11.8 | 34.4
| |
| BJP | Ashokan Kulanada | 6,250 | 9.0 | 3.8
| |
| SLAP | Thomaskutty | 632 | 0.9 | ||
| Independent | V. R. Sisily | 487 | 0.7 | ||
| Independent | Radhakrishnan S. | 461 | 0.7 | ||
| Independent | C. C. Kuttappan | 302 | 0.4 | ||
| Margin of victory | 14,620 | 20.9 | 15.8
| ||
| Turnout | 69,794 | 62.3 | 8.7
| ||
| CPI(M) gain from INC | Swing | 2.6
|
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2001[edit | edit source]
There were 1,12,967 registered voters in the constituency for the 2001 election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Malethu Saraladevi | 37,025 | 46.2 | ||
| CPI(M) | A. Padmakumar | 32,900 | 41.1 | ||
| BJP | V. N. Unni | 10,219 | 12.8 | ||
| Margin of victory | 4,125 | 5.1 | |||
| Turnout | 80,156 | 71.0 | |||
| INC gain from Left Democratic Front (Kerala) | Swing | ||||
See also[edit | edit source]
- Aranmula
- Pathanamthitta
- Pathanamthitta district
- List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
- 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "State Assembly Constituencies in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala". pathanamthitta.nic.in. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ↑ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Pathanamthitta District". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
- ↑ "Villages and Curresponding Talukas in Pathanamthitta district". pathanamthitta.nic.in.
- ↑ "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Aranmula". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in. Archived from the original on 9 May 2016. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ↑ "ceo.kerala.gov.in" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 April 2021.
- ↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
- ↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
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