Kovalam (State Assembly constituency)

Template:Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency Kovalam State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies at the state Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is M. Vincent of INC.

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:

Key

  INC    CPI (M)    [[Indian National Congress (Indira)|Template:Indian National Congress (Indira)/meta/shortname]]    Independent    [[Lok Dal|Template:Lok Dal/meta/shortname]]    JD    [[Janata Dal (Secular)|Template:Janata Dal (Secular)/meta/shortname]]  

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1967	3rd	J. C. Moraes	IND		1967 – 1970
1970	4th	M. Kunjukrishnan Nadar			1970 – 1977
1977	5th	A. Neelalohitadasan Nadar			1977 – 1980
1980	6th	M. R. Raghu Chandra Bal	INC(I)		1980 – 1982
1982	7th	N. Shakthan Nadar	IND		1982 – 1984
1987	8th	Neelalohithadasan Nadar	LKD		1987 – 1991
1991	9th		JND		1991 – 1996
1996	10th				1996 – 2001
2001	11th		JD(S)		2001 – 2006
2006	12th	George Mercier	INC		2006 – 2011
2011	13th	Jameela Prakasham	JD(S)		2011 – 2016
2016	14th	M. Vincent	INC		2016 - 2021
2021	15th				Incumbent

Election results

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

Niyamasabha Election 2021

There were 2,18,656 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kovalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	M. Vincent	74,868	47.06	7.92
	[[Janata Dal (Secular)|Template:Janata Dal (Secular)/meta/shortname]]	Neelalohitadasan Nadar	63,306	39.79	2.34
	BJP	Vishupuram Chandrasekharan	18,664	11.73
	NOTA	None of the above	773	0.49
	BSP	K. R. Anish	641	0.40	0.25
	Independent	V. S. Prince	417	0.26
	Independent	Venganoor Asokan	284	0.18
	Independent	R. I. Ajil	147	0.09
Turnout			1,59,100	72.76	1.47
	INC hold		Swing

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 2,07,410 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kovalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	M. Vincent	60,268	39.14	2.70
	[[Janata Dal (Secular)|Template:Janata Dal (Secular)/meta/shortname]]	Jameela Prakasham	57,653	37.45	10.15
	[[Bharath Dharma Jana Sena|Template:Bharath Dharma Jana Sena/meta/shortname]]	Kovalam T. N. Suresh	30,987	20.13
	BSP	K. R. Anish	996	0.65	0.28
	Independent	M. C. Jayalal	933	0.61
	NOTA	None of the above	845	0.55
	Independent	Pramod Kumar	564	0.37
style="background-color: Template:Indian Gandhiyan Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Indian Gandhiyan Party|Template:Indian Gandhiyan Party/meta/shortname]]	Sarasamma T.	558	0.36
Turnout			1,53,966	74.23	5.15
	INC gain from Janata Dal (Secular)		Swing

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,83,616 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kovalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	[[Janata Dal (Secular)|Template:Janata Dal (Secular)/meta/shortname]]	Jameela Prakasham	59,510	47.60
	INC	George Mercier	52,305	41.84
	BJP	Venganoor Satheesh	9,127	7.30
	Independent	Thanka Bai T.	1,231	0.98
	SDPI	A. M. Nizam	1,193	0.95
	BSP	Muraleedharan	1,157	0.93
Margin of victory			7,205	5.76
Turnout			1,25,008	68.08
	Janata Dal (Secular) gain from INC		Swing

See also

• Kovalam
• Thiruvananthapuram district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election