Balussery Assembly Constituency | |
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Constituency No. 24 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
![]() Balussery Bus Terminal | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Kerala |
District | Kozhikode |
Established | 1957 |
Total electors | 2,24,239 (2021) |
Reservation | SC |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | CPI(M) |
Alliance | LDF |
Elected year | 2021 |
Balussery is one of the largest 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 Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency. [1] Since the May 2021 assembly elections, K. M. Sachin Dev of CPI(M), has been the MLA from Balussery, preceded by Purushan Kadalundy.
Balussery Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments: [2]
The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
INC CPI(M) PSP INC(U) IC(S) BLD
Election | Niyama Sabha | Member | Party | Tenure | |
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1957 | 1st | M. Narayana Kurup | Praja Socialist Party | 1957 – 1960 | |
1960 | 2nd | 1960 – 1965 | |||
1967 | 3rd | A. K. Appu | Samyukta Socialist Party | 1967 – 1970 | |
1970 | 4th | A. C. Shanmukhadas | Indian National Congress | 1970 – 1977 | |
1977 | 5th | P. K. Sankarankutty | Bharatiya Lok Dal | 1977 – 1980 | |
1980 | 6th | A. C. Shanmukhadas | Indian National Congress | 1980 – 1982 | |
1982 | 7th | Indian Congress | 1982 – 1987 | ||
1987 | 8th | Indian Congress (Socialist) – Sarat Chandra Sinha | 1987 – 1991 | ||
1991 | 9th | 1991 – 1996 | |||
1996 | 10th | Indian Congress | 1996 – 2001 | ||
2001 | 11th | Nationalist Congress Party | 2001 – 2006 | ||
2006 | 12th | A. K. Saseendran | 2006 – 2011 | ||
2011 | 13th | Purushan Kadalundi | Communist Party of India | 2011 – 2016 | |
2016 | 14th | 2016-2021 | |||
2021 | 15th | K. M. Sachin Dev | Incumbent |
There were 2,24,239 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election. [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | K. M. Sachin Dev | 91,839 | 50.39 | ![]() | |
INC | Dharmajan Bolgatty | 71,467 | 38.54 | − | |
BJP | Libin Balussery | 16,490 | 9.04 | ![]() | |
WPOI | Chandrika | 889 | 0.48 | ![]() | |
BSP | Jobish Balussery | 476 | 0.26 | ![]() | |
Independent | Dharmendran | 247 | 0.13 | − | |
RPI | Mohandas | 115 | 0.06 | − | |
Margin of victory | 20,372 | TBD | TBD | ||
Turnout | 182,253 | 81.27 | |||
CPI(M) hold | Swing | TBD |
There were 2,09,667 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election. [4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | Purushan Kadalundy | 82,914 | 47.50 | ![]() | |
IUML | U. C. Raman Padanilam | 67,450 | 38.64 | − | |
BJP | P. K. Supran | 19,324 | 11.07 | ![]() | |
SDPI | Balan Nadavannur | 1,764 | 1.01 | ![]() | |
WPOI | Saseendran Bappankad | 959 | 0.59 | − | |
Independent | Raman Thachampoyil Meethal | 710 | 0.41 | − | |
NOTA | None of the above | 638 | 0.37 | − | |
Independent | K. T. Sivan | 497 | 0.28 | − | |
Independent | Jayarajan | 312 | 0.18 | − | |
Margin of victory | 15,464 | 8.86 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 1,74,568 | 83.26 | ![]() | ||
CPI(M) hold | Swing | ![]() |
There were 1,85,109 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | Purushan Kadalundi | 74,259 | 49.18 | ||
INC | A. Balaram | 65,377 | 43.29 | ||
BJP | T. K. Raman | 9,304 | 6.16 | ||
SDPI | Bhadran M. P. | 1,404 | 0.93 | ||
BSP | K. K. Satheesh | 660 | 0.14 | ||
Margin of victory | 9,882 | 5.89 | |||
Turnout | 1,51,004 | 81.58 | |||
CPI(M) gain from NCP | Swing |