Chengannur (State Assembly constituency)
Template:Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency Chengannur State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Mavelikara Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2018 Chengannur Assembly Bypoll, the current MLA is Saji Cheriyan of CPI(M).
Local self governed segmentsEdit
Chengannur Niyamasabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:[2]
| Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk |
|---|---|---|
| Chengannur | Municipality | Chengannur |
| Ala | Grama panchayat | Chengannur |
| Budhanoor | Grama panchayat | Chengannur |
| Cheriyanad | Grama panchayat | Chengannur |
| Mannar | Grama panchayat | Chengannur |
| Mulakuzha | Grama panchayat | Chengannur |
| Pandanad | Grama panchayat | Chengannur |
| Puliyoor | Grama panchayat | Chengannur |
| Thiruvanvandoor | Grama panchayat | Chengannur |
| Venmony | Grama panchayat | Chengannur |
| Chennithala-Thriperumthura | Grama panchayat | Mavelikkara |
Members of Legislative AssemblyEdit
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
CPI (M) INC Independent CPI [[Indian Congress (Socialist)|Template:Indian Congress (Socialist)/meta/shortname]]
| Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | R. Sankaran Thampi | CPI | 1957 – 1960 | |
| 1960 | 2nd | T. Kunjukrishna Pillai | INC | 1960 – 1965 | |
| 1967 | 3rd | P. G. P. Pillai | CPI (M) | 1967 – 1970 | |
| 1970 | 4th | 1970 – 1977 | |||
| 1977 | 5th | Thankappan Pillai | Independent | 1977 – 1980 | |
| 1980 | 6th | K. R. Saraswathi Amma | 1980 – 1982 | ||
| 1982 | 7th | S. Ramachandran Pillai | 1982 – 1987 | ||
| 1987 | 8th | Mammen Iype | Indian Congress | 1987 – 1991 | |
| 1991 | 9th | Shobhana George | INC | 1991 – 1996 | |
| 1996 | 10th | 1996 – 2001 | |||
| 2001 | 11th | 2001 – 2006 | |||
| 2006 | 12th | P. C. Vishnunath | 2006 – 2011 | ||
| 2011 | 13th | 2011 – 2016 | |||
| 2016 | 14th | K. K. Ramachandran Nair | CPI (M) | 2016 – 2018 | |
| 2018* | 14th | Saji Cheriyan | 2018-2021 | ||
| 2021 | 15th | Incumbent | |||
Election resultsEdit
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediately previous election.
Niyamasabha Election 2021Edit
2018 by-electionEdit
Due to the death of the sitting MLA K. K. Ramachandran Nair, Chengannur Niyamasahba constituency went to bypoll on March 28, 2018. There were 2,00,137 registered voters in the constituency for the bye-election.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI (M) | Saji Cheriyan | 67,303 | 45.19 |  8.85
| |
| INC | D Vijayakumar | 46,347 | 31.12 | 0.27
| |
| BJP | P. S. Sreedharan Pillai | 35,270 | 23.68 |  5.65
| |
| Independent | Swami Sukbaksh Saraswathi | 800 | 0.53 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 728 | 0.07 | 0.18
| |
| AAP | Rajeev Pallathu | 368 | 0.24 | - | |
| Independent | Mobran Achary | 263 | 0.17 | ||
| RLD | Jiji Puntbala | 248 | 0.16 | ||
| Independent | Aji. M. Chalakeri | 137 | 0.09 | ||
| Independent | Madhu Chengannur | 124 | 0.08 | ||
| Independent | Sreedharan Pillai | 121 | 0.08 | ||
| Independent | Somnatha Warrier T. K. | 98 | 0.06 | ||
| Independent | Unni Karthikeyan | 57 | 0.04 | ||
| [[Ambedkarite Party of India|Template:Ambedkarite Party of India/meta/shortname]] | Subhash Naga | 53 | 0.04 | ||
| Independent | Murali Naga | 44 | 0.03 | ||
| Independent | A. K. Shaji | 39 | 0.03 | ||
| Independent | Sivaprasad Gandhi K. M. | 21 | 0.01 | ||
| Independent | M. C. Jayalal | 20 | 0.01 | ||
| Margin of victory | 20,956 | 13.85 | |||
| Turnout | 1,58,756 | 79.32 | 5.59
| ||
| CPI (M) hold | Swing | 8.85
|
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Niyamasabha Election 2016Edit
There were 1,97,372 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI (M) | K. K. Ramachandran Nair | 52,880 | 36.34 | 5.67
| |
| INC | P. C. Vishnunath | 44,897 | 30.85 | 21.13
| |
| BJP | P. S. Sreedharan Pillai | 42,682 | 29.33 | 24.49
| |
| Independent | Sobhana George | 3,966 | 2.73 | - | |
| BSP | Alex | 483 | 0.33 | - | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 363 | 0.25 | - | |
| Independent | E. T. Sasi | 247 | 0.17 | ||
| Margin of victory | 8,013 | 5.49 | |||
| Turnout | 1,45,518 | 73.73 | 2.86
| ||
| CPI (M) gain from INC | Swing | ||||
Niyamasabha Election 2011Edit
There were 1,76,875 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | P. C. Vishnunath | 65,156 | 51.98 | ||
| CPI (M) | C. S. Sujatha | 52,656 | 42.01 | ||
| BJP | B. Radhakrishna Menon | 6,062 | 4.84 | ||
| Independent | Surendran Karippuzha | 848 | 0.68 | - | |
| SUCI(C) | V. Venugopal | 623 | 0.50 | ||
| Margin of victory | 12,500 | 9.97 | |||
| Turnout | 1,25,345 | 70.87 | |||
| INC hold | Swing | ||||
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "State Assembly Constituencies in Alappuzha district, Kerala". alappuzha.nic.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- ↑ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Alappuzha District". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
- ↑ "Chengannur Election Result Live: CPM's Saji Cherian Wins By Over 20,000 Votes".
- ↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
- ↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.