Vypen (State Assembly constituency)
Template:Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency Vypen 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 Ernakulam Lok Sabha constituency. [1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is K.N. Unnikrishnan of CPI(M).
Vypen constituency came into existence in 2011. Before It was known as Njarackal Constituency from 1957 to 2011.
Local self governed segmentsEdit
The constituency lies in the islands of Vypin. It is composed of the following local self-governed segments:[2]
| Sl no. | Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edavanakkad | Grama panchayat | Kochi |
| 2 | Elamkunnapuzha | Grama panchayat | Kochi |
| 3 | Kuzhuppilly | Grama panchayat | Kochi |
| 4 | Nayarambalam | Grama panchayat | Kochi |
| 5 | Njarackal | Grama panchayat | Kochi |
| 6 | Pallippuram | Grama panchayat | Kochi |
| 7 | Kadamakkudy | Grama panchayat | Kanayannur |
| 8 | Mulavukad | Grama panchayat | Kanayannur |
Members of Legislative AssemblyEdit
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
INC CPI (M) [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] Independent [[Indian Congress (Socialist)|Template:Indian Congress (Socialist)/meta/shortname]]
As Njarackal
| Election | Niyama Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | K. C. Abraham | INC | 1957 – 1960 | |
| 1960 | 2nd | 1960 – 1965 | |||
| 1967 | 3rd | A. S. Purushothaman | CPI(M) | 1967 – 1970 | |
| 1970 | 4th | M. K. Raghavan | INC | 1970 – 1977 | |
| 1977 | 5th | T. A. Paraman | RSP | 1977 – 1980 | |
| 1980 | 6th | M. K. Krishnan | CPI(M) | 1980 – 1982 | |
| 1982 | 7th | P. K. Velayudhan | Ind. | 1982 – 1987 | |
| 1987 | 8th | K. K. Madhavan | IC(S) | 1987 – 1991 | |
| 1991 | 9th | K. Kunhambu | INC | 1991 – 1996 | |
| 1996 | 10th | M. A. Kuttappan | 1996 – 2001 | ||
| 2001 | 11th | 2001 – 2006 | |||
| 2006 | 12th | M. K. Purushothaman | CPI(M) | 2006 – 2011 | |
As Vypen
| Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13th | S. Sharma | CPI(M) | 2011 – 2016 | |
| 2016 | 14th | 2016-2021 | |||
| 2021 | 15th | K. N. Unnikrishnan | Incumbent | ||
Election resultsEdit
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
Niyamasabha Election 2021Edit
There were 1,72,086 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI (M) | K. N. Unnikrishnan | 53,858 | 41.24 |  11.00
| |
| INC | Deepak Joy | 45,657 | 37.49 | 2.53
| |
| Twenty 20 Party | Job Chakkalackal | 16,707 | 12.79 | New | |
| BJP | K. S. Shaiju | 13,540 | 10.37 | - | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 525 | 0.40 | - | |
| Independent | M. K. Mukundan | 309 | 0.24 | - | |
| Margin of victory | 8,201 | 6.28 | 8.47
| ||
| Turnout | 1,30,596 | 75.89 |  3.98
| ||
| CPI (M) hold | Swing | 11.00
|
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Niyamasabha Election 2016Edit
There were 1,64,237 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI (M) | S. Sarma | 68,526 | 52.24 | 1.87
| |
| INC | K. R. Subhash | 49,173 | 37.49 | 8.54
| |
| [[Bharath Dharma Jana Sena|Template:Bharath Dharma Jana Sena/meta/shortname]] | Vamalochanan K. K. | 10,051 | 7.66 | - | |
| WPOI | Jyothidas Paravur | 1,406 | 1.07 | - | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 910 | 0.69 | - | |
| CPI(ML)L | Manjuladevi | 248 | 0.19 | - | |
| [[Ambedkarite Party of India|Template:Ambedkarite Party of India/meta/shortname]] | Rajeev Naagan | 231 | 0.18 | - | |
| Independent | Subhash K. S. | 217 | 0.17 | - | |
| style="background-color: Template:Peoples Democratic Party (India)/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Peoples Democratic Party (India)|Template:Peoples Democratic Party (India)/meta/shortname]] | K. D. Vishwanathan | 183 | 0.14 | - |
| Independent | Kodickal Sadasivan | 136 | 0.10 | - | |
| Independent | S. D. Satheesh | 88 | 0.07 | - | |
| Margin of victory | 19,353 | 14.75 | 10.41
| ||
| Turnout | 1,31,169 | 79.87 | 0.47
| ||
| CPI (M) hold | Swing | 1.87
|
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Niyamasabha Election 2011Edit
There were 1,52,040 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI (M) | S. Sarma | 60,530 | 50.37 | ||
| INC | Ajay Tharayil | 55,572 | 46.03 | ||
| BJP | T. G. Surendran | 2,930 | 2.43 | - | |
| BSP | T. K. Sivanandan | 546 | 0.45 | - | |
| Independent | Santhosh Sarma | 490 | 0.41 | - | |
| Independent | Benny Joseph | 374 | 0.31 | ||
| Margin of victory | 5,242 | 4.34 | |||
| Turnout | 1,20,726 | 79.40 | |||
| CPI (M) win (new seat) | |||||
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "State Assembly Constituencies in Ernakulam district, Kerala".
- ↑ "State Assembly constituencies in Ernakulam district, Kerala". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
- ↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2021, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
- ↑ "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.