| Kuthuparamba | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 14 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
 Kuthuparamba Martyrdom Memorial | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | South India |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Kannur |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 1,94,124 (2021) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 16th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | RJD |
| Alliance | LDF |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Kuthuparamba 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 Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is K. P. Mohanan of RJD.
Local self-governed segments[edit | edit source]
Seven out of the nine local bodies included by the 2008 delimitation in the current Kuthuparamba Assembly constituency were parts of the erstwhile Peringalam Assembly constituency before the delimitation. In 2015, the Gram panchayats of Panoor, Peringalam, and Kariyad were merged to form Panoor Municipality.[2]
Kuthuparamba Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:[3]
| Sl no. | Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuthuparamba | Municipality | Thalassery |
| 2 | Panoor | Municipality | Thalassery |
| 3 | Kottayam-Malabar | Grama panchayat | Thalassery |
| 4 | Kunnothuparamba | Grama panchayat | Thalassery |
| 5 | Mokeri | Grama panchayat | Thalassery |
| 6 | Pattiom | Grama panchayat | Thalassery |
| 7 | Thrippangottur | Grama panchayat | Thalassery |
Members of Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]
The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:
| Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Name | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | P. R. Kurup | Praja Socialist Party | 1957 – 1960 | |
| 1960 | 2nd | 1960 – 1965 | |||
| 1967 | 3rd | K. K. Abu | Samyukta Socialist Party | 1967 – 1970 | |
| 1970 | 4th | Pinarayi Vijayan | Communist Party of India | 1970 – 1977 | |
| 1977 | 5th | 1977 – 1980 | |||
| 1980 | 6th | M. V. Raghavan | 1980 – 1982 | ||
| 1982 | 7th | P. V. Kunhikannan | 1982 – 1987 | ||
| 1987 | 8th | K. P. Mamoo Master | 1987 – 1991 | ||
| 1991 | 9th | Pinarayi Vijayan | 1991 – 1996 | ||
| 1996 | 10th | K. K. Shailaja | 1996 – 2001 | ||
| 2001 | 11th | P. Jayarajan | 2001 – 2005 | ||
| 2005* | 2005 – 2006 | ||||
| 2006 | 12th | 2006 – 2011 | |||
| Major boundary changes | |||||
| 2011 | 13th | K. P. Mohanan | Socialist Janata | 2011 – 2016 | |
| 2016 | 14th | K. K. Shailaja | Communist Party of India | 2016 - 2021 | |
| 2021 | 15th | K. P. Mohanan | Rashtriya Janata Dal | Incumbent | |
*by-election
Election results[edit | edit source]
2026[edit | edit source]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IUML | Jayanthi Rajan | ||||
| RJD | P. K. Praveen | ||||
| BJP | Shijilal | ||||
| AAP | Rafeed A.P | ||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Margin of victory | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
2021[edit | edit source]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RJD | K.P. Mohanan | 70,626 | 45.36% |  0.28
| |
| IUML | Pottankandi Abdulla | 61,085 | 39.23% |  1.96
| |
| BJP | C. Sadanandan Master | 21,212 | 13.62% | 3.06
| |
| Independent | Mohanan Kunhiparambath Meethal | 1,360 | 0.87% | − | |
| Independent | Mohanan K.P. Kaithavecha Parambath | 543 | 0.35 | − | |
| Majority | 9,541 | 7.5 | −0.87 | ||
| Turnout | 154,826 | 79.76% | 0.33 | ||
| Registered electors | 1,94,124 | ||||
| LDF hold | Swing | ||||
2016[edit | edit source]
There were 1,81,095 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | K. K. Shailaja | 67,013 | 45.64 | − | |
| JD(U) | K. P. Mohanan | 54,722 | 37.27 | − | |
| BJP | C. Sadanandan Master | 20,787 | 16.68 | 7.43
| |
| SDPI | Muhammad Shabeer K. C. | 1,681 | 1.14 | − | |
| Independent | K. P. Mohanan Vedichalil | 1,041 | 0.71 | − | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 501 | 0.34 | − | |
| Independent | K. P. Mohanan Hridayam | 355 | 0.24 | − | |
| Independent | K. Raghunathan | 296 | 0.20 | − | |
| Independent | Shylaja Prashanth | 265 | 0.18 | − | |
| Independent | Shylaja Nelliyulla Parambath | 163 | 0.11 | − | |
| Margin of victory | 12,291 | 8.37 | |||
| Turnout | 1,46,824 | 79.43 | 0.36
| ||
| CPI (M) gain from Socialist Janata (Democratic) | Swing | ||||
2011[edit | edit source]
There were 1,60,335 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SJ(D) | K. P. Mohanan | 57,164 | 44.68 | ||
| INL | S. A. Puthiya Valappil | 53,861 | 42.10 | ||
| BJP | O. K .Vasu | 11,835 | 9.25 | ||
| Independent | K. P. Mohanan | 1,982 | 1.55 | ||
| Independent | S. Poovalappil | 1,199 | 0.94 | ||
| Independent | K. P. Mohanan | 1,130 | 0.88 | ||
| Independent | Sulaim T. B. | 758 | 0.59 | ||
| Margin of victory | 3,303 | 2.58 | |||
| Turnout | 1,27,929 | 79.79 | |||
| Socialist Janata (Democratic) gain from CPI (M) | Swing | ||||
See also[edit | edit source]
- Kuthuparamba
- Peringalam Assembly constituency
- Kannur district
- List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
- 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "State Assembly Constituencies in Kannur district, Kerala". kannur.nic.in.
- ↑ "Panoor Municipality Wards, 2015". Department of Local Self Governance, Government of Kerala.
- ↑ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Kannur District". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 6 March 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. Retrieved 11 March 2020.