Thodupuzha Assembly constituency

Thodupuzha
Thodupuzha
Constituency No. 90 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Thodupuzha Civil Station
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Idukki
Established	1957
Total electors	1,95,987 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Apu John Joseph
Party	[[Kerala Congress\|Template:Kerala Congress/meta/shortname]]
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2021

Thodupuzha 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 Idukki Lok Sabha constituency.

Local self-governed segments[edit | edit source]

Thodupuzha Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:^[1]

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Thodupuzha	Municipality	Thodupuzha
2	Edavetty	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
3	Karimannoor	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
4	Karimkunnam	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
5	Kodikulam	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
6	Kumaramangalam	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
7	Manakkad	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
8	Muttom	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
9	Purapuzha	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
10	Udumbannoor	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
11	Vannappuram	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
12	Velliyamattom	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha
13	Alacode	Grama panchayat	Thodupuzha and Idukki

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:

Key

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

2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thodupuzha
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KEC	Apu John Joseph	84,796	58.01	9.38
	KC(M)	Cyriac Chazhikadan	40,505	27.71	6.32
	TTP	Roy A. Varikkad	12,679	8.67	−
	AAP	Adv. Basil John	2,603	1.78	New
	Independent	Ajay V Marar (Ajay Unni)	2,580	1.77	−
	SDPI	Afsal M B	1,626	1.11	−
	NOTA	None of the above	876	0.6
	Independent	Jomon John	267	0.18	−
	SUCI(C)	P T Varghese	234	0.16	0.04
Margin of victory			44,291
Turnout			1,46,166
	KEC hold		Swing

There were 1,91,210 registered voters in Dharmadam Constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.^[2]^[3]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thodupuzha
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KEC	P. J. Joseph	67,495	48.63	–
	KC(M)	Prof. K. I. Antony	47,236	34.03	20.05
	BJP	Shyamraj P.	21,263	15.32	–
	BSP	Leethesh P. T.	934	0.67	0.36
	NOTA	None of the above	674	0.49	0.37
	Independent	M. T. Thomas	562	0.40	–
	Independent	Parthasaradhi K.	370	0.27	–
	SUCI(C)	T. R. Sreedharan	273	0.20	0.37
Margin of victory			20,259	14.60	17.60
Turnout			138,807	72.59	0.35
	Kerala Congress gain from Kerala Congress (M)		Swing

There were 1,95,987 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thodupuzha
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(M)	P. J. Joseph	76,177	54.08	2.16
	LDF	Roy Varicattu	30,977	21.08
	BDJS	S. Praveen	28,845	20.37
	SDPI	Roy Arackal	1,294	0.91	3.31
	NOTA	None of the above	1,219	0.86	−
	SUCI(C)	Nisha Jimmy	811	0.57	0.38
	PDP	Najeeb Kalarickal	710	0.50	−
	BSP	P. J. Ambily	440	0.31	0.15
	Independent	Santhosh P. K.	292	0.21	−
	Independent	K. M. Veenas	228	0.16	−
	Independent	Pareeth	194	0.14	−
Margin of victory			45,587	32.20	1.12
Turnout			1,41,574	72.24	0.29
	KC(M) hold		Swing	2.16

There were 1,77,529 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thodupuzha
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(M)	P. J. Joseph	66,325	51.92
	Independent	Joseph Augustine	43,457	34.02
	BJP	P. M. Velayudhan	10,049	7.87
	SDPI	M. A. Najeeb	5,386	4.22
	BSP	Binu Sebastian	677	0.53	−
	Independent	C. R. Dileep Kumar	655	0.51	−
	Independent	T. S. Sreenivasan	482	0.38	−
	Independent	Joman John	282	0.22	−
	SUCI(C)	Siby C. Mathew	246	0.19
	KJ	Shibu Mon	179	0.14	−
Margin of victory			22,868	17.90
Turnout			1,27,738	71.95
	KC(M) hold		Swing