Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency

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Vattiyoorkavu
Constituency No. 133 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Kowdiar Palace at Kowdiar ward of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionSouth India
StateKerala
DistrictThiruvananthapuram
Established2011
Total electors2,08,579 (2022)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyCPI(M)
Alliance  LDF
Elected year2019

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

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 the Legislative Assembly

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

  PSP   Independent   RSP   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

Niyamasabha election 2021

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

Partywise Results

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Vattiyoorkavu
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) V. K. Prasanth 61,111 44.40 Increase0.15
BJP V. V. Rajesh 39,596 28.77 Increase6.61
INC Veena S. Nair 35655 25.76 Decrease6.82
BSP N. Murali 890 0.3
SDPI A. Shyju 201 0.15
NOTA None of the above 109 0.62 Decrease0.04
Margin of victory 21,515 15.63 Increase3.96
Turnout 1,37,636
CPI(M) hold Swing Increase0.15

Niyamasabha By-election 2019

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]

2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections: Vattiyoorkavu
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) V. K. Prasanth 54,830 44.25% Increase14.46
INC K. Mohankumar 40,365 32.58% Decrease5.23
BJP S. Suresh 27,453 22.16% Decrease10.03
NOTA None of the Above 820 0.66% Increase0.06
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% Increase6.06
Turnout 1,23,910 62.66% Decrease7.17
CPI(M) gain from INC Swing Increase14.46

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for the 2016 Kerala legislative assembly Election.[6]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC K. Muraleedharan 51,322 37.81 Decrease12.38
BJP Kummanam Rajasekharan 43,700 32.19 Increase20.21
CPI(M) T. N. Seema 40,441 29.79 Decrease6.05
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 Decrease8.79
Turnout 1,37,108 70.23 Increase6.01
INC hold Swing Decrease12.38

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,75,398 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[7]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu
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

References

  1. ^ "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala". trivandrum.nic.in.
  2. ^ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District".
  3. ^ "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Vattiyoorkavu".
  4. ^ "Vattiyoorkavu Niyamasabha Constituency goes to bypoll, www.thehindu.com". www.thehindu.com.
  5. ^ "'ശരിദൂരം'കടന്ന് പ്രശാന്ത്; ബിജെപിക്കും യുഡിഎഫിനും കനത്ത പ്രഹരം". ManoramaOnline (in Malayalam). Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
  7. ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
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