| Vattiyoorkavu | |
|---|---|
| Indian electoral constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| District | Thiruvananthapuram |
| Party | CPI(M) |
Vattiyoorkavu State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. [1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is V. K. Prasanth of CPI(M).
Vattiyoorkavu constituency came into existence in 2011. Before it was known as Trivandrum North Constituency from 1977 to 2011, and Trivandrum-II constituency from 1957 to 1977.
Local self governed segments[edit | edit source]
Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:[2]
| Sl no. | Name | Wards | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality/Municipal Corporation) | Taluk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thiruvananthapuram | 24 wards | Municipal Corporation | Thiruvananthapuram |
Members of Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency during the period of various assemblies:[3]
Key
[[Praja Socialist Party|Template:Praja Socialist Party/meta/shortname]] Independent [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] CPI (M) INC
As Trivandrum-II
| Election | Niyama Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | Pattom Thanu Pillai | PSP | 1957 – 1960 | |
| 1960 | 2nd | 1960 – 1965 | |||
| 1967 | 3rd | K. C. Vamadevan | Ind. | 1967 – 1970 | |
| 1970 | 4th | K. Pankajakshan | RSP | 1970 – 1977 | |
As Trivandrum North
| Election | Niyama Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5th | K. Ravindran Nair | Ind. | 1977 – 1980 | |
| 1980 | 6th | K. Anirudhan | CPI(M) | 1980 – 1982 | |
| 1982 | 7th | G. Karthikeyan | INC | 1982 – 1987 | |
| 1987 | 8th | M. Vijayakumar | CPI(M) | 1987 – 1991 | |
| 1991 | 9th | 1991 – 1996 | |||
| 1996 | 10th | 1996 – 2001 | |||
| 2001 | 11th | K. Mohankumar | INC | 2001 – 2006 | |
| 2006 | 12th | M. Vijayakumar | CPI(M) | 2006 – 2011 | |
As Vattiyoorkavu
| Election | Niyama Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13th | K. Muraleedharan | INC | 2011 – 2016 | |
| 2016 | 14th | 2016 – 2019 | |||
| 2019* | V. K. Prasanth | CPI(M) | 2019 - 2021 | ||
| 2021 | 15th | Incumbent | |||
- * Byepoll
Election results[edit | edit source]
Niyamasabha election 2021[edit | edit source]
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
Partywise Results[edit | edit source]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | V. K. Prasanth | 61,111 | 44.40 |  0.15
| |
| BJP | V. V. Rajesh | 39,596 | 28.77 | 6.61
| |
| INC | Veena S. Nair | 36,456 | 25.76 |  6.82
| |
| BSP | N. Murali | 890 | 0.3 | ||
| SDPI | A. Shyju | 201 | 0.15 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 109 | 0.62 | 0.04
| |
| Margin of victory | 21,515 | 15.63 | 3.96
| ||
| Turnout | 1,37,636 | ||||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | 0.15
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Niyamasabha By-election 2019[edit | edit source]
Due to the election of the sitting MLA K. Muraleedharan as the MP from Vatakara (Lok Sabha constituency), Vattiyoorkavu Constituency went to bypoll in 2019. There were 1,97,570 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for this election.[4] V. K. Prashanth won by 14,465 votes in the subsequent election conducted in October 2019.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | V. K. Prasanth | 54,830 | 44.25% | 14.46
| |
| INC | K. Mohankumar | 40,365 | 32.58% | 5.23
| |
| BJP | S. Suresh | 27,453 | 22.16% | 10.03
| |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 820 | 0.66% | 0.06
| |
| Independent | A.Mohanakumar | 135 | 0.11% | N/A | |
| Independent | Nagaraj G. | 100 | 0.08% | N/A | |
| Independent | Suresh S. S. | 93 | 0.08% | N/A | |
| Independent | Murukan A. | 76 | 0.06% | N/A | |
| Independent | Mithran G. | 38 | 0.03% | N/A | |
| Majority | 14,465 | 11.67% | 6.06
| ||
| Turnout | 1,23,910 | 62.66% | 7.17
| ||
| CPI (M) gain from INC | Swing | 14.46
|
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Niyamasabha Election 2016[edit | edit source]
There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for the 2016 Kerala legislative assembly Election.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | K. Muraleedharan | 51,322 | 37.81 | 12.38
| |
| BJP | Kummanam Rajasekharan | 43,700 | 32.19 | 20.21
| |
| CPI(M) | T. N. Seema | 40,441 | 29.79 | 6.05
| |
| BSP | Mekkansi K. John | 399 | 0.29 | N/A | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 816 | 0.60 | N/A | |
| Independent | Binu D. | 147 | 0.11 | ||
| Independent | Sahadevan | 104 | 0.08 | ||
| Independent | K. G. Mohanan | 77 | 0.06 | ||
| Independent | Baby D. | 53 | 0.04 | ||
| Independent | Saju Ameerdas | 48 | 0.04 | ||
| Majority | 7,622 | 5.56 | 8.79
| ||
| Turnout | 1,37,108 | 70.23 | 6.01
| ||
| INC hold | Swing | 12.38
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Niyamasabha Election 2011[edit | edit source]
There were 1,75,398 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[7]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | K. Muraleedharan | 56,531 | 50.19 | ||
| Independent | Cheriyan Phillip | 40,364 | 35.84 | ||
| BJP | V. V. Rajesh | 13,494 | 11.98 | ||
| BSP | Kaithakodu Radhakrishnan | 915 | 0.81 | ||
| Independent | Cheriyan P. T. | 551 | 0.49 | ||
| Independent | Rajan K. | 488 | 0.08 | ||
| Independent | G. Balakrishnan Nair | 294 | 0.26 | ||
| Majority | 16,167 | 14.35 | |||
| Turnout | 1,12,637 | 64.22 | |||
| INC win (new seat) | |||||
See also[edit | edit source]
- Vattiyoorkavu
- Thiruvananthapuram district
- List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
- 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
- 2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala". trivandrum.nic.in.
- ↑ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District".
- ↑ "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Vattiyoorkavu".
- ↑ "Vattiyoorkavu Niyamasabha Constituency goes to bypoll, www.thehindu.com". www.thehindu.com.
- ↑ "'ശരിദൂരം'കടന്ന് പ്രശാന്ത്; ബിജെപിക്കും യുഡിഎഫിനും കനത്ത പ്രഹരം". ManoramaOnline (in മലയാളം). Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ↑ "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.